Steve and all, Also another problem I had on the common line was that during my taxi testing, when the tanks got low on fuel, sometimes the fuel pumps would start sucking air from one of the tanks causing a very rough running engine and even shut down. This was very evident when making turns on the ground because centrifugal force would slosh the fuel away from the pick up tube. Also would happen if sitting on unleveled ground as gravity would pull the fuel away from the pick up allowing air in.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <srmak...@aol.com> To: <corvaircr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:45 AM Subject: CorvAircraft> fuel pumps > Hi guys, Steve Makish here. I ran a common line between the tanks at first. > Here is the problem. My vents, one at each end. The left one had more > authority than the right. They were both the same shape and length. I watched one > early morning as I was leaving FXE for Dayton ohio airshow, over the everglades > as fuel was streaming from the right wingtip. This was the first time I had > really stuffed all the fuel it would hold and once the siphoning action > started it would not stop no matter how i slipped the plane. It finally quit after > about 20 minutes but i had no idea how much fuel I had lost. I went to two > separate pumps and one output. They do level out as fuel does pass through the > pumps while the plane sits. Two pumps is the way to go and two switches to > select and manage fuel load. > Steve > _________________________________________________________ > search the CorvAircraft archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/corvairsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from CorvAircraft, send a message to corvaircraft-le...@mylist.net > Other CorvAircraft list info is at http://www.krnet.org/corvaircraft_inst.html >
