Bob and All,
I installed the super expensive Avelec system and find it next to useless.
So I have the elliptic large opening between the headrests, with a half inch
probe positioned at an angle going to the bottom of the port tank position.
Can anyone tell me which fuel sender I could use to replace this, and which
would give me a more or less accurate reading of fuel content regardless of
which brand of fuel I use ?
Karl
>From: "R.C.Harrison" <ptag.dev@tiscali.co.uk>
>Reply-To: europa-list@matronics.com
>To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
>Subject: RE: Europa-List: Fuel sender etc.
>Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 00:05:48 -0000
>
>
>Hi! All
>I don't quite follow where this thread came from but if you get a
>bendable probe it is by comparison a "piece of cake" to go through the
>area between the head rests with a large elliptical hole big enough to
>get your hand through and have future contamination inspections too.
>There is a mod. with the PFA on this question but there's some
>re-enforcing to do round the edges of the double skin hole to do and you
>need to get the three plies of bid wrapped underneath between the tank
>top and the main structure. I carefully carved my hole out with a
>Stanley Knife in big chunks therefore not leaving any swarf in the tank.
>Regards
>Bob Harrison G-PTAG Europa MKI/Jabiru 3300
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
>[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Peter Rees
>To: europa-list@matronics.com
>Subject: Re: Europa-List: Fuel sender etc.
>
><peter.rees05@ntlworld.com>
>
>If you follow the Europa way of cutting the hole using a soldering iron,
>it
>takes a long time to clean up the holes but doesn't generate any swarf.
>(though totals your soldering iron bit!) You really need a right angle /
>45
>degree one - a straight one will be really hard going).
>
>We contemplated long and hard to try and find easier ways to do the job
>but
>the most tricky bit by a long way is putting the split ring in while
>working
>inside the headrest and there is no easy way of doing that. The sender
>has
>to go here due to the shape of the tank so no easy way around this.
>
>One tip is to use a dremmel or other small cutter to cut the hole in the
>ply
>seatback to get access to the tank. Andy (or the instructions)
>recommended
>using a starret type cutter on a lever arm and trying to cut the hole
>this
>way but there seemed to be no way to get enough pressure to get the
>thing to
>bite. Drill a pilot hole to gauge how far in the dremmel can go before
>it
>touches the tank (if you drill this in the middle of the ply hole you're
>
>going to cut out, if you hit the tank, it doesn't matter as you're going
>to
>cut this bit of the tank out).
>
>If you're not dexterous and happy with spending several hours kneeling
>on
>the stbd seatback, I'd probably try someone who has done the job and see
>if
>they could 'give you a hand' (do the job while you make them lots of
>tea).
>It really, really wasn't a fun job (though it really does work very well
>
>indeed!).
>
>
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