---------------------------------------------------------- Kitfox-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 04/19/10: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:36 AM - Re: water temp sender location? (Scott DeMeyer) 2. 08:04 AM - Re: water temp sender location? (Lowell Fitt) 3. 09:12 AM - Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 (akflyer) 4. 09:35 AM - Re: Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 (Jim_and_Lucy Chuk) 5. 02:13 PM - Re: Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 (Patrick Reilly) 6. 03:15 PM - Re: rotary oil cap vent (Guy Buchanan) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:36:58 AM PST US From: Scott DeMeyer Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: water temp sender location? Hi Clem, you won't find a water temp sender location on the 912. Most peopl e use the CHT gauge instead as it should be similar temps as water. On my 9 12, I installed a water temp sender in the top of the spider. I drilled a h ole and used Hysol to glue in a threaded insert. Scott --- On Sun, 4/18/10, CLEMWEHNER wrote: From: CLEMWEHNER Subject: Kitfox-List: water temp sender location? =0A=0A =0A =0A=0AKF friends,=0A-=0AWhere do I install the sender for a wa ter temp guage on a =0A912 UL installation?=0A-=0AI appreciate any ideas. =0A-=0AClem=0AOklahoma =0AKFIV-912=0A=0A=0A ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:04:58 AM PST US From: "Lowell Fitt" Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: water temp sender location? Clem, I am just about there on my new project and the installation manual calls for a CHT sender fitted to 10mm tapped holes on cylinders 2 or 3. you will find these facing down on those cylinders. Some have also installed some type of actual coolant temp gauges. I chose to go with the factory (Rotax) recommendation and used the tapped holes in the heads. Lowell From: CLEMWEHNER Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 9:19 PM Subject: Kitfox-List: water temp sender location? KF friends, Where do I install the sender for a water temp guage on a 912 UL installation? I appreciate any ideas. Clem Oklahoma KFIV-912 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:12:21 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 From: "akflyer" I was of the opinion that an electric back up pump was overkill... but my plane had one on it install by the original builder so I left it on. It has saved me twice when the fuel filter started to plug off. Between the mechanical and electric pump I was able to maintain fuel flow till I could get back to the lake. I was flying in cruise and burned about 5.6 GPH, I was flying along straight and level and noticed I was only flowing 3.9 GPH. I hit the electric pump and flow went back to normal. After landing and pulling the filter It visibly looked OK, but you could hardly blow through it. I keep 2 spare filters in the plane now in the tool bag. -------- DO NOT ARCHIVE Leonard Perry aka SNAKE Soldotna AK Avid "C" / Mk IV 582 (147 hrs and counting on the rebuild) IVO IFA Full Lotus 1450 #1 snake oil salesman since 1-22-2009 I would rather die trying to live, than to live trying not to die.... Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=294850#294850 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 09:35:10 AM PST US From: Jim_and_Lucy Chuk Subject: RE: Kitfox-List: Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 On the subject of fuel filters=2C after haveing to make an off field landin g in my Avid when a filter plugged up on me=2C (no damage except almost to my shorts LOL) I added a second filter in parallel to the other one. I hav e a fuel shut off valve that stops the flow through the second filter. I u se both filters for take off and climb=2C then close the second filter off. I don't have a fuel flow gauge=2C but if the engine ever starts to miss =2C the first thing I will do is open the valve for the second fuel filter. Almost all the flow goes through the first filter=2C so the back up filte r should be clear. Take care=2C JIm Chuk Avids=2C Kitfox 4 Mn > Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 > From: akflyer_2000@yahoo.com > Date: Mon=2C 19 Apr 2010 09:11:51 -0700 > To: kitfox-list@matronics.com > > > I was of the opinion that an electric back up pump was overkill... but my plane had one on it install by the original builder so I left it on. It ha s saved me twice when the fuel filter started to plug off. Between the mech anical and electric pump I was able to maintain fuel flow till I could get back to the lake. I was flying in cruise and burned about 5.6 GPH=2C I was flying along straight and level and noticed I was only flowing 3.9 GPH. I h it the electric pump and flow went back to normal. After landing and pullin g the filter It visibly looked OK=2C but you could hardly blow through it. I keep 2 spare filters in the plane now in the tool bag. > > -------- > DO NOT ARCHIVE > Leonard Perry aka SNAKE > Soldotna AK > Avid "=3BC"=3B / Mk IV > 582 (147 hrs and counting on the rebuild) > IVO IFA > Full Lotus 1450 > #1 snake oil salesman since 1-22-2009 > > I would rather die trying to live=2C than to live trying not to die.... > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=294850#294850 > > > > > > > =========== =========== =========== =========== > > > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inbox .. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 02:13:56 PM PST US Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Re: Fuel Pump IV-1200 w/ 582 From: Patrick Reilly Len, What type of filter are you using? Pat Reily On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, akflyer wrote: > > I was of the opinion that an electric back up pump was overkill... but my > plane had one on it install by the original builder so I left it on. It has > saved me twice when the fuel filter started to plug off. Between the > mechanical and electric pump I was able to maintain fuel flow till I could > get back to the lake. I was flying in cruise and burned about 5.6 GPH, I > was flying along straight and level and noticed I was only flowing 3.9 GPH. > I hit the electric pump and flow went back to normal. After landing and > pulling the filter It visibly looked OK, but you could hardly blow through > it. I keep 2 spare filters in the plane now in the tool bag. > > -------- > DO NOT ARCHIVE > Leonard Perry aka SNAKE > Soldotna AK > Avid "C" / Mk IV > 582 (147 hrs and counting on the rebuild) > IVO IFA > Full Lotus 1450 > #1 snake oil salesman since 1-22-2009 > > I would rather die trying to live, than to live trying not to die.... > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=294850#294850 > > -- Pat Reilly Mod 3 582 Rebuild Rockford,IL ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 03:15:28 PM PST US From: Guy Buchanan Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: rotary oil cap vent At 06:13 PM 4/17/2010, you wrote: >Hi, Just checked my rotary valve bowl cap. It has a small hole in >the cap, however, it seems that there is a sealed paper/ rubber >gasket inside the cap. >This gasket does not have a hole in it. How is this working? Jack, Hopefully the gasket does have a hole in it, you just can't see it. The hole is a slit in the rubber, about .1" long, nothing more. If it has no hole in it you probably already noticed the results, which will either be rotary valve oil spewed out somewhere, a grossly enlarged rotary valve oil tank, or oil in your coolant. Yes, the cap should be, very slightly, vented. Guy Buchanan San Diego, CA K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 400 hrs. and counting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message kitfox-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Kitfox-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/kitfox-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/kitfox-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.