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At 07:40 AM 6/25/01 -0400, Tom Garden wrote: >I am having a fuel spray from the left wing fuel cap. I replaced the gasket >but it seems to now be coming out of the vent hole. Any ideas? It may be normal. First of all, how do you fuel? You need to leave 'breathing room' in all the tanks because the system interconnects and with changes in attitude and inertia, the fuel heads for the low point. If that low is a full-up wing tank out she comes. Never fill the header unless the wing tanks went dry. At cost of about a gallon of capacity, leave an inch or so of space at the top of the wing tanks when you fuel up. Always fuel the down-hill wing tank first. You can do all these things and still spew a little fuel, depending upon how things are plumbed and on what you're doing at the time of being full of gas. Now, if you start out with a couple of inches of space above the fuel in both wing tanks and a normal level header tank, and still spew fuel, there is something amiss in the plumbing, like a cross-over between the two wing tanks that is obstructed. Many coupes take fuel from one tank for the header and overflow it into the other, so the gas goes round and round. Any obstruction can cause this wierdness. Very small pitch changes make a big difference in the header tank's overflow habits, because it's a big, flat tank (fill a brownie tin with water and tip it around to see what I mean). If there isn't room in the wings to 'take up' the overflow, you get spray out from caps. Greg ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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