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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:23 pm Post subject: fiberglass tanks |
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i have fiberglass tanks that have small craksthat leak fuel on the top rear out bord corners from the wing getting tweked on landing. Repairing then has me wondering what to use? snaps told me that JB weld should work fine. Im wondering if they are even worth the trouble of repairing and how to slosh them after?
mal
Malcolm Brubaker
Michigan Sport
Pilot Repair
LSRM-A, PPC, WS
(989)513-3022
From: paul wilson <pwmac(at)sisna.com>
To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com
Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 12:51:49 PM
Subject: RE: Re: Wing tank fuel filters
--> Kitfox-List message posted by: paul wilson <pwmac(at)sisna.com (pwmac(at)sisna.com)>
.Totally agree
If one must see fuel take the element out of the glass filter. Any restriction or pressure drop in those lines is very bad news and that is exactly what fittings and filters create.
Why one must see fuel in a line is way beyond my thought process. I have never heard of any vehicle except Kitfoxes that have fuel visible in the lines.
Nice fat lines (3/8") are overkill, use them and let the junk travel to the low point so it can be purged.
Paul
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At 05:49 PM 1/1/2011, Jim_and_Lucy Chuk wrote:
| Quote: | To each his own, but I will never have the filters between the wing tanks and header tank. My only off field landing to date has been because of a plugged filter between the wing tank and header. That was after about 300 hrs of flying 9 different 2 stroke engined ultralights. My thinking is let the header tank catch whatever gets past the finger strainers, it is actually a large gascolator and so that's what it's made to do. It doesn't take much to slow up the flow in a gravity feed situation and that is what you have between the wings and header tank. I now have a filter after the header tank and have not had similar problems in the last 300+ hrs. Take care,
Jim Chuk
Avid MK IV (flying)
Kitfox 4 (building)
northern Mn
-Matt Drall============
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