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Re: Europa-List: Monowheel fuel line routing?

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Monowheel fuel line routing?
From: Alex Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:16:12

..and then I suppose the next question must come, does the fuel selector 
valve allow fuel through from both tank `halves when in reserve, 
because if not, youd have to be changing tanks with ever diminishing 
intervals to keep the big fan upfront humming after venturing into the 
dreaded reserve?

Alex, kit 529
thinking of buiding once in a while.


DuaneFamly@aol.com wrote:

>
>Ron,
>
>Ditto on the last response except that I chose to bring the return line into 
>the fitting on the Reserve outlet side of the tank. My Reserve is on the port

>side. My thinking was that this way the Reserve side was continuously being 
>topped off, even in rough air. If plumbed into the top of the tank at the fuel

>fill port, which is on the starboard side, then once you switch over to Reserve

>the fuel return would deplete the Reserve side much quicker because the 
>return fuel would settle in the Main side of the tank. 
>
>Am I seeing something wrong?
>
>
>Mike Duane A207
>  
>




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