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Dennis.Kirby(at)kirtland.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:50 am Post subject: Fuel system layout

<< I thought silicone would be the way to go. But  I don't pretend to know much about gasket material. What would you think is the best material to use. >>  

   

Permatex makes a product specifically designed for fuel fittings – it’s a white goop.  Smells a little like tangerines.  Available at any auto parts store.  It’s 100 percent fuel-proof, and seals any/all threaded fuel fittings on your fuel system.  I used this stuff several years ago to secure the Curtis drain valve and the brass fuel nipples that thread into my homemade PVC gascolator.  Never had a leak.  

   

Dennis Kirby  

Mark-3, 912ul  

Sandia Park, NM  

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NeilsenRM(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:28 am Post subject: Fuel system layout

Frank/All

  

 I used to have a float ball in my fuel sight tube.  I sized the ball so that it was small enough to move freely in the sight tube  but big enough to not go through the tee to the fuel system. It work well  till one day when I was adding fuel it got stuck in the lower tee. This happened  when my electronic fuel gage was working intermittently and wouldn't you know  the fuel gage quit working at the same time. If you add one of these ball I  would recommend some kind of screen or stop that will keep the ball from  entering the fuel system and getting stuck in a fitting or worse.

  

 Also if you are considering a capacitance  type fuel gage sending unit you will find that the calibration(accuracy)  will change when you change between auto fuel and 100LL.

  

 Rick Neilsen

 Redrive VW Powered MKIIIC

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by0ung(at)brigham.net
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject: Fuel system layout

Frank/All  

   

I used to have a float ball in my fuel sight tube. I sized the ball so that it was small enough to move freely in the sight tube but big enough to not go through the tee to the fuel system. It work well till one day when I was adding fuel it got stuck in the lower tee. This happened when my electronic fuel gage was working intermittently and wouldn't you know the fuel gage quit working at the same time. If you add one of these ball I would recommend some kind of screen or stop that will keep the ball from entering the fuel system and getting stuck in a fitting or worse.  

   

Also if you are considering a capacitance type fuel gage sending unit you will find that the calibration(accuracy) will change when you change between auto fuel and 100LL.  

   

Rick Neilsen  

Redrive VW Powered MKIIIC  

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I fixed the ball getting stuck in a fitting by cutting a very short piece of fuel tubing and sliding it in the sight glass tube sidewards.     One below the float ball and one above the ball.   The fuel would go around the piece of tubing and the ball was captured.    Later installed the Princeton capacitance fuel sender.  And did away with the sight glass.  It was easier to see the fuel quantity on the eis than twist my old neck to see the float.  I always do a visual inspection to make sure my calibrated eye and the gauge compare.  Then by knowing my fuel burn I know my duration and compare with the gauge.    

   

Boyd Young  

MkIII  

Utah   

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John Hauck

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:16 pm Post subject: Fuel system layout

That's the way a plumber would do it.   

  

 Boyd Y, who fixed the delta faucet in the pilots  lounge at Moab Airport, Utah, three or four years ago, while waiting for the  dust and wind storms to go somewhere else.

  

 john h

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by0ung(at)brigham.net
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:55 am Post subject: Fuel system layout

Isn’t that the way everyone does it???????????  

   

Do not archive    

   

   

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That's the way a plumber would do it.    

   

Boyd Y, who fixed the delta faucet in the pilots lounge at Moab Airport, Utah, three or four years ago, while waiting for the dust and wind storms to go somewhere else.  

   

john h  

mkIII  

 I fixed the ball getting stuck in a fitting by cutting a very short piece of fuel tubing and sliding it in the sight glass tube sidewards.     

Boyd Young  

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