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Re: Fuel Tank

Subject: Re: Fuel Tank
From: Tony Krzyzewski <tonyk@kaon.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:49:31

> Longitudinally - mid way along the flat bit between the head rests.
> Laterally - outside the headrest by about 2" max.  A vertical there goes to
> the deepest part next to the tunnel. Not sure about a fat capacitance 
gauge,
> but the pipette gauge work was all done there.  Small tank must be similar.

This is the bit that is causing me the trouble. The unit mounts with a VDO 
tank flange and it is going to be a really close fit. I may end up having to 
take a bit out of the "headrest" ply to get it to fit. If I do then I will 
make a small cover for the unit and effectively raise the "headrest" floor by 
an inch or so with a dummy base.

Tony

ps

Found a good way of establishing just where the tank sits. I rigged the 
fuselage lower half up in its proper position then put the cockpit module 
with tank into the fuselage. With the tank now sitting on the floor of the 
fuselage I stuck several short plastic marker strips onto the fuel tank sides 
acting as spacers to indicate how far away it was from the cockpit module 
front and top.

It was then a simple job to pull the cockpit module out, turn it upside down 
and position the tank with packing so that the plastic strips were in the 
same location as they were when the module was in the fuselage. 

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