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| Subject: | Re: Oil filter and fuel flow |
On the uneven fuel flow. I have been flying my 701 for 8 years. I had uneven fuel
flow like everyone else.
I built a mockup with transparent tanks and 1/4 inch lines, and just sitting on
my porch with no airflow pressures or forward facing vents or balance lines,
I could see the same uneven flow tendencies. Little bubbles were forming and
stopping the flow (but not sure that that is the problem with 3/8 lines). I put
a small tv camera inside my full gas tank and found lots of bubbles in the finger
screen. Don't know how they got there.
Concluded that the only way to have control over the fuel flow was to have separate
valves - one for each tank, so I now run the fuel lines under the seat to
two valves on the floor, and then to the Aircraft Spruce gascolator forward
of the firewall. I have total control. No more worry about an inadequate design.
912uls, no return line, original internally vented caps.
I did have my green plastic alcohol resistant (from Spruce) fuel line disintegrate
right at the wing root and spill ten gallons of fuel down the cabin side,
through the baggage compartment and out the bottom onto the hangar floor .
Changed to automotive rubber lines.
Fred Sanford N9701
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