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First and foremost, I must thank you all. I'm from Canada and found this American forum extremely helpful. A couple of clarification points: - The individual that I will be renting from (if I decide to go with ...) is a CFI with commercial insurance on the plane. Thanks for mentioning that...

Initially full rich and then I tried with lean as well. Same rough idle. Field elevation is 650’

It is an individual owner with "open pilot" policy on its insurance - that's how I can rent some time on his airplane! I told him the issue, and he brushed it off, saying: "that's ok since the engine is not stalling! Just make sure to keep the engine above 900RPM on the ground!" So, given...

Hi all, I was about to buy a block of time on someone's C150 with an O-200 engine. During the runup test, I noticed a rough idle (with and without carb heat on). Otherwise, the engine performed really well on higher RPMs (mag checks were fantastic). For the couple of touches and gos', the...