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lgold(at)quantum-associat
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

I forgot to add a fuel return lines from the 912 ULS carbs back to the fuel

tanks and am looking for alternatives. The fuel tanks have already been

enclosed in the wings of my high-wing Zenith 701 airplane project. It would

be very difficult, even ugly to add a fuel return back to a tank at this

point. 



How important is it to install this return? Are there other good

alternatives, like returning fuel to a "T" going into a gascolator or just

letting fuel drip?  



Thanks for your answer,

Rgds,

Les

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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

Les,

  

 I think that you will find that most installations do not use a fuel return  line. I don't have one in my 701 with a 912ULS.

  

 Bob Spudis

  

  

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		  I forgot    to add a fuel return lines from the 912 ULS carbs back to the fuel

tanks    and am looking for alternatives. The fuel tanks have already been

enclosed    in the wings of my high-wing Zenith 701 airplane project. It would

be very    difficult, even ugly to add a fuel return back to a tank at this

point.    	




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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: Re: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

Hi Les,



Bob is right. Most 912uls installations don't have return lines. If you have certain types of avionics that specify one then you would need it. My last plane did not have one.

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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

Roger and Bob,

Your consensus is that no return is needed. So do we just let the return

line leak down through the cowling?

Rgds,

Les 



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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

Hi Les,



Just run the return/overflow line down and out away from the engine to the outside of the cowling. Don't put it down in the airstream, but up just inside the cowling so it can drip if need be to the outside and not on a hot engine or exhaust.

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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

I think you are talking two different things here! The  short tube off the side of the carb is what the carb senses the different  altitudes to automatically change the fuel mixture. This should not be changed.  If you are using the Rotax carb/heat box then they attach to the carb/heat box  otherwise leave them alone. Along with the Rotax carb/heat box came the  carb trays that mount below the carb to catch any overflow out of the tube and  the trays have a 1/4" line that you can divert to just below your bottom  cowl. Getting bak to the fuel return line, There was a setup that Rotax had to  return excess fuel back to the tanks if you wanted to. I just had my fuel line  out of the Rotax fuel pump split tint a T and go to the two carb inlets, That's  It!

 Did I make it more confusing? I hope  not!! 

 Bob Spudis

  

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Hi Les,



Just run the return/overflow    line down and out away from the engine to the outside of the cowling. Don't    put it down in the airstream, but up just inside the cowling so it can drip if    need be to the outside and not on a hot engine or    exhaust.



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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

Be careful not to change those carb pressure sensing lines, or outlets.  There was a case where someone routed tubing from those down to the bottom of the plane to dump any overflow overboard...   As luck would have it, it changed the pressure enough that the engine would quit ONLY IN FLIGHT when the airspeed created a very low pressure on those carb overflow tubes      Talking to the pilot, it was a very very close call for the pilot and plane.



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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

I have 110 hours on my Rotax 912 UL and I have those carb pressure 

sensing/overflow lines connected together with blue primer line and 

routed to one side of the firewall and inserted in a vented bottle so I 

can see if there is any overflow.  I have no problem with rough running, 

and I have never seen any overflow.  All the same, if there ever is any 

overflow, I don't want it to run down on the hot exhaust. 



Unrelated to this, I also DO have a fuel return to the fuel tank.  It is 

very simple:  I simply TEE'd into the fuel line half way between the two 

carburettors and ran a line with a home made restrictor back to the fuel 

tank.  So it is not a true return line for each carb, but it bleeds out 

any air or vapors very effectively, because the TEE is at the highest 

point in the fuel system.



Jack



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 Be careful not to change those carb pressure sensing lines, or outlets.  There was a case where someone routed tubing from those down to the bottom of the plane to dump any overflow overboard...   As luck would have it, it changed the pressure enough that the engine would quit ONLY IN FLIGHT when the airspeed created a very low pressure on those carb overflow tubes  [Shocked]    Talking to the pilot, it was a very very close call for the pilot and plane.



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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for 912 fuel return line alternatives

Very intresting way to get rid of the air bubbles...  I see them in my line, not a lot, dont know if I really need to get rid of them or not.   The down side is, the more lines and connections, the more risk of a leak.  Im not sure if it would be worth it or not.



With your carb overflow lines, you dont have enough pressure differental to cause yourself a problem, thats good !   That warning is more for those that might be wanting to do the same thing, its bitten people before.   Mine wont go onto the exhaust, but it will go onto the hot engine     But my engine is not enclosed, so its not quite so bad.  You can see a picture of it here

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