Hi Tom,
My Europa has been stinking of fuel for 4 years now. I identified the
problem as the filler hose quite quickly and Europa sent me a new hose
some years ago. It was just as bad as the old one!
I have some 50 x 1.0 mm stainless steel pipe in stock and I thought of
lining the hose in the luggage bay area by inserting a length of the
pipe in the filler hose and clamping it of at both ends with jubilee
clips.
I will try to do it this weekend and will report if this works.
Barry Tennant
Tom & Cathy Friedland schrieb:
>
> A few weeks ago I posted a couple messages about the gasoline smell
> passing through the supplied fuel filler hose. I was surprised to find
> that there was little interest in this problem. John Hurst at Lakeland
> responded as said to forward it to Andy directly if I wanted his
> response. I did that but have not received any reply.
>
> The problem: It has been reported that the hose was porous and that the
> smell would transverse the wall thickness. I plugged both ends of my
> piece with auto gas inside. In a few weeks the smell was so bad I had
> to remove it from a large garage space. I cannot imagine what the
> effect would be in a Europa cockpit! After emptying it and now 2 weeks
> later, it still stinks just as bad.
>
> Jim Thursby suggested red stripe marine fuel hose but the manufacturer
> states that it can be use for fuel transfer but cannot have fuel present
> all of the time as the fuel will dissolve the hose!
>
> I read somewhere NACA fuel filler hose will work. I obtained some, put
> the gas in and sealed the ends. Now, only about 2 weeks later, there
> is a small but definite fuel odor on the hose.
>
> Is this a problem only for those using Yankee auto gas? It is a big
> problem for me. Anyone else?
>
> Andy, can you please provide a solution?
>
> Tom Friedland A079 XS Mono J3300 N96V
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