Craig, Mine (in a mono, but I think it would be just as satisfactory in a
trigear) is attached to the medial R plywood support of the baggage bay. It
has a drain tap at its bottom which is easily accessed through a small flap
on the fuselage bottom, for day to day checking for water. My fuel pumps and
a fuel pressure sensor are mounted on the adjacent outer plywood support
which is convenient. Access for maintenance or taking out the filter screen
for cleaning is through the starboard baggage bay access flap. The system
has worked well for me over 5 1/2 yrs and I would choose it if building
again. As a point of general principle I feel it is sound practice to have
as little as possible of the fuel system located firewell forward
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "craig bastin" <craigb@onthenet.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:34 PM
Subject: Europa-List: Gascolator location
>
> Just after suggestions on where people are mounting their gascolators in
the
> trigear version, I was thinking about the back of the
> baggage bay bulkhead, as that should be below the tank bottoms and idealy
> the lowest point, but it looks to me like
> the flap drive will prevent this location. My other thought was inside the
> tunnel under the throttle etc, this would require getting
> right under the A/C to check drains etc. I am ready to bond cockpit module
> in, but want to do as much of this "hidden" stuff as i can
> before I do bond it in. I have seen a Mono with a small side door for
this,
> but have doubts about the height relative to the tank
> in the tri
>
> regards
>
> craig
> 9:26 PM
>
>
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