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Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:43 am    Post subject: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

I am building my 601XL center console and am going to use the fuel system pretty much as shown in drawing 6-K-2 with minor changes. One is that I would like to add an extension to the ZAC supplied Andair selector valve to drop the valve closer to the floor while keeping the knob on the console. A second change is with the gascolator. It looks to me like a big old target hanging out under the cockpit floor for dirt and rocks. I was either thinking of mounting it a bit higher up (but still keeping it the low point in the system), or building some type a fairing around it.

If anybody has done something similar with their fuel selector or gascolator installation, I would appreciate some tips and photos.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:04 am    Post subject: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

Take a look here for Matt Archer's fuel selector:

www.zodiacxl.com/Brake%20and%20Fuel%20system.htm

Also, in a 601XL/Corvair FWF the standard location for the gascolator
(typically Andair's) is low on the engine side of the firewall, co-pilot's
side. Image attached of Phil Maxson's plane.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:38 am    Post subject: Re: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

I used the Aircraft Spruce fuel valve -
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/whfsv.php

I took 3/8" brass stock and added an extension. I suppose you could machine it, but I made mine with a hacksaw, drill & file.

It's not as pretty as the Andair, but I can use the other $150 I saved to make really nice labels.

Regards,
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:25 am    Post subject: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

I have the Andair extension parts and will be moving the valve close to the
floor, and gascolator will be low on the forward side of firewall so as to
not stick out.

Robin in AR
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:15 am    Post subject: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

hanging the gascolator there is nothing new in Euroipe. If you look closely at the Scottish Aviation Bulldog line, they have the GHascltor right where Mr. Heintz designed it. IN theory you could just put a good fuel filter in line, and forgo it. I stayed simple and put right where they designed. On the bulldog, they even designed a fairing, looks pretty good. Maybye one of us could mold one one day when not flying.

Juan

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

I found a nice Aluminum half-teardrop fairing in a junk pile at Sun & Fun 2006 - he had a bunch of them. I plan to mount it so that it acts as a deflector without restricting access to the gascolator drain. Something like that would be easy to make in fiberglass.... just make a form out of clay and lay up a few layers of glass with epoxy resin.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:33 am    Post subject: Re: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

Howdy,
I was also concerned with that fragile gascolator hanging below the belly right behind the nose wheel on the 601XL. I fly the Idaho back country where the majority of the strips are gravel. I just could envision a rock flying up from the nose wheel and disabling the gascolator and once rotated -- engine dying due to fuel starvation. These airports are unforgiving and the mountains grow real fast -- so you have to place a lot of confidence in your equipment!
Attached (hopefully) are pictures of a fiberglass flaring that I designed. I hope that this will give you all an idea on how to protect the gascolator.
Mack
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:30 pm    Post subject: Moving the Fuel Selector Valve and Gascolator Reply with quote

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