Diesel engine

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:06:46 -0400, "George A. Graham"
wrote:

Mounting on a trailer or truck lets you move around the countryside,
so you don't make everyone angry. (Even the airport managers would shoo
me off after a few hours of prop/engine noise).

I think it actually will fit in the back of my pickup (haven't taken
the time to measure yet), and as you know, we live right next to some
pretty dense woods. I could trundle it up to the logging landing
above us and run it all day without bothering anyone.

My worry is to tie it down REALLY well because I will be using the IVO
prop to generate the load and I'll have to pitch the prop to allow the
engine to make 4,800 rpm, after it's run in a bit. At that rpm, there
will be lots of thrust, don't want that engine and stand leaping off
the truck and wailing into the woods. ;-)

I feel I need to have a hobbs meter and carefully thought out
documentation of the engine runs so that the DAR can see that the
engine has been thoroughly tested. So all the instrumentation that
the engine would normally have in the cockpit, should be there on the
little instrument panel I've attached to the test stand. That means
the EGT guage so I can adjust the mixture and test to see if it will
run smoothly lean of peak. I need to be standing there in the howling
wind taking down readings at regular intervals throughout the testing.

Corky Scott