Hot start problem

[GMAs]

You haven't said much about the shape of the engines... and mags... spark plugs etc...and times on these items... they will make a differance...

As to fuel... shuting off the mix.. idle cutoff... is not what you want to do... sorry...

as it is the spider assembly on top that may have the fuel boiled out of it... and full of just "air"...

By holding off the mix control.. to cut off... you are not doing anything except circulating the fuel in the pump kinda thing... as no fuel is going to the rice valve on the throttle or the spider/injector lines/injectors...

instead may I suggest that you attend the meeting in May at LV and we will go over exactly how to start the engine... but, till then go from full rich to lean... i.e mixture control full forward... throttle 1/2 inch forward.. boost for a count of 5... then idle cut off...on the mix control.. boost pump off... and throttle 1 inch forward... count to 5 slowly... and crank... once the engine starts mixture full forward...

don't worry about the excess fuel.. as it will go out the overflow vents on the bottom of the cyc heads... make sure the line is clean though.. else you will hydrolic lock the cyc and that is damaging... those lines should be checked at annual for being open.. but, sometimes a little bug can block one up thinking its a new home... kinda thing... so a good way to check is to boost and then get out of the plane and go look for the fuel on the ground... ... again come to the meeting in may.. see other thread.. and we will show you how to do it.. on the ramp... along with the others... who are interested... that and a lot more...

Hope this helps.. G.M> GMAs