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Dennis,
Welcome to being a Couper!
Congratulations on your purchase!
Since the nose tank fill tube sticks up
above the cowl a smidgen, I find it hard to think that half a gallon could flow
into the tank through the filler tube.
I’m minded to think that in the
presence of a small amount of water, any suspended alcohol (gasohol) separates
out and joins with the water to look like, well, water. As a good thing,
I think I’ve heard that if this happens in flight, your engine might just
keep running as the alcohol gets used – no promises or even firm guesses.
Perhaps you got enough gasohol to produce
that amount of apparent “water.” If your nose tank were full
of 10% gasohol and got a bit of water to cause separation, you’d get
about - .6 gal. of apparent “water.”
This is not an answer but it’s a
subject for you to consider.
I’d suggest you do the olive jar
test on the fuel in your wing tanks – maybe they have alcohol that just
hasn’t been stimulated to separate. Here’s a link to the
procedure for any who could use it:
http://www.challengers101.com/AlcoholTest.html
(P.S. There’s no rule against
posting technical articles on FLYIN, but we do encourage people to post these
to the slightly larger TECH list. But, please don’t double
post. Since this is running here, I bet you’ll get plenty of good
answers.)
Ed Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com
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