Hello, Ted Greenfield over 15 learning to fly and I have the answer that you have been waiting for Hello, Ted Greenfield over 15 learning to fly and yes, we are all enduring our quarantine You can see by my hair. It's just getting longer and longer and longer and longer but No need to fear my fearless over 50s do not fret because we are all surviving quarantine And I hope all of you are surviving quarantine very well But today I have the answer to what happened to me a couple of weeks ago and two people got it right Yes, it was the mechanical fuel pump the mechanical fuel pump failed because as the engine Started to increase in our pms as we added more throttle the fuel pressure went less and less and less and less and then when we Lowered the throttle the fuel pressure came back so when we got in there and we finally figured out what the problem was We ordered a new fuel pump and we decided to check some other things out and thank goodness this thing failed because This is what we found with the carburetor Well Well that could have been really bad You know Here's a lot of weight you have one hose another hose and another hose in here and This is in the airship, you know, so by vibration or we did vibration or whatever it's happening here It's it's a lot of tension here. So that's one of the reasons it can damage the the trides in the carburetor, you know and Yeah, so that's that's the thing here so so can that be retooled and Well, he's gonna see if he he's gonna see if he can get about about a retool or make an elite coil You know what's in the coil it's like an artificial trides that you can make here But you have to enlarge the hole and make a Bigger trids and that put the elite cold so the the size of the material here It's not too much right. There's not much left in it Yeah, and when you put the elite coil if you can do it and you put this in here and with all the tension here vibration You're gonna broke here and it's gonna be war's yeah, you know, so Well I went ahead and yes, I absolutely ordered a new carburetor I didn't want the old one retooled. I didn't want to go and re thread that hole or anything It's not worth saving even a thousand dollars when your safety and your life depends on it So I went ahead I bought a new carburetor it actually wasn't that expensive it was around $1200 and It's been installed and then we went ahead and looked at all the fittings all the lines changed the ones that were needed and Yeah, it's a 1968 airplane and it needs to be slowly brought up to speed like this and sure I could spend all my all my funds and all my resources and all my time doing that but doing it in a slow progressive manner When things call for it and in a realistic and a reasonable manner is always very helpful So yes, I put a new carburetor on it and we've got a new mechanical fuel pump Which would give me a tremendous tremendous peace of mind and we did give everything else a once-o-old Rover and a real close look and that really is all we found so I know I've got a great engine I've probably got about seven to eight hundred hours left in that engine which is quite a long time and It's well worth the money because this is a safe airplane. She's in great shape and now we've all got the time Take a look at your plane and get the things Addressed that you may need to get addressed now while we've got the time while we're basically all grounded So until next time hit that subscribe button hit that like button Let me know what you think. Thanks so much for watching and we will see you soon