M20J Hot Start

HOW TO HOT START A LYCOMING FUEL INJECTED MOONEY

[timotb]

No boost pump or excess throttle needed on hot start. I think that's been my hot start problem on my rv7 io360 Lycoming. Best hot start tutorial.

[RoyalAviatorRepo]

Great video, very informative! I just purchased a 1985 Mooney M20J and absolutely love it. When I first got it, I was having trouble starting it and had to give it a few attempts. I finally figured out to leave a little power and before I enriched the fuel. Now, I started a YouTube channel where I fly my Mooney cross-country to repossess vehicles.

[brywd]

Thanks for doing this video.  Two days ago I sat at a fuel pump for almost an hour after missing a hot start on a new to me airplane with an IO-540.  Yesterday I tried this after finding your video and it started as you say "Like a car."  I hope this continues to work for me on the hottest summer days as well.  Thanks again!

[sactu]

Excellent advice - thanks for posting this video!

[gevmage]

:-O  That's fascinating. I'm going to have to watch this a few more times, then try that out in my plane. 

Thanks very much for doing this, Don!

[wfrederick]

Thanks Don! I look forward to trying this.

[jeffreyblalock]

Does this also work for a fuel injected continental engine as well?

[fifeellis]

this works fantastic. works every time. thanks

[bobl]

whe TRY a hot start... that says everything about the reliability of this engines

[schnabel]

I've started lots of mooneys and this may work fine for an engine that was turned off for 15 minutes, but let it sit for an hour and this will never, ever work. I'm speaking from 3000 hours as a pilot and mechanic in a 201. hot engine start. throttle full forw, mixture full forward, prime for 5 sec. that clears out lines with fuel. then mixture back to cutoff, leave throttle full forward and start. when engine starts, mixture forward and bring back throtte to idle. this is a flooded engine start. What Don is doing, I can restart an engine easily multiple times like this. no magic here. If you have a 6 cylinder, don't follow dons procedure either. use the poh procedures for continental 6's