Flooding

[Gman]

May be a stupid questions but do rotary engines flood easily and if so do they stay flooded for long?  Can\'t start the 12a, not happened before starter is fine engine trys but just doesn\'t make it - got to get to work tomorrow any ideas

[20B_boy]

Yeah they flood bad - and easily

There are some deflood ideas in here some where:

deflood ideas here

Most effective method is to whip the plugs out, dry em, cook em, crank her with the EGI fuse out (so all the fuel gets chucked out the plug holes) then replace plugs - may be with some thin oil down the plug holes to help regain some of the compression that flooding loses.

I\'ve only dealt with FD floodings so cant give any specific assistance with a 12A I\'m afraid as I dont have a clue about them!