It's been a long day and I might not be thinking clearly, but when I cranked
it over without trying to disengage the bendix, I thought I could tell that
it was definitely still engaged. The starter strain was instant when I hit
the switch. After I pulled the prop through, there seemed to be a slight
delay, a click (which was what I thought to be the bendix engaging) and then
the starter would strain and start turning the prop. It also made different
sounds whether I stopped cranking on a compression stroke or a non
compression stroke. This also lead me to believe that the bendix may be
disengaging. At this point I honestly don't know but we'll find out over
the next few days when we fly it.
Thanks
Jim
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Jim Burns wrote:
It's my understanding that the old shower of sparks magnetos like our
engines have do not have impulse couplers. Maybe I'm wrong and that
was
what I heard.
Jim

That's true. I didn't realize you had a shower-of-sparks. In that
case you shouldn't hear the snap of an impulse coupler. That still
leaves the question of how you got the bendix to disengage by hand. In
my experience, you'd have to be a real he-man to spin the prop fast
enough by hand to get it to disengage. I've never been able to do it
when handpropping an engine that already had the bendix gear engaged.
Maybe that's a symptom of your problem (i.e. something not right in the
bendix system).

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)