Original Posted By: Michael Perez
First off, I want to say "THANK YOU" to Kevin for your willingness to sharesome hard stuff with us. I know from my experience that sending thoseemails describing such an incident is very, very difficult.Secondly, I want to say that you are the THIRD guy I've known who's beenshot down because of water in the fuel, yes THREE! I think my take-away is this is an area where it pays to be super nit-pickyabout. When designing your system, imagine putting a couple cups of fuelinto your empty tank then ask yourself, could you drain that out? if not,then you cannot get all the water out. Water will act just like that as itstays under the fuel and slides around like mercury. It can sit in acorner, or around a fuel strainer that sticks up too far or in a low spot ina line until a certain attitude is achieved at which time that slug of waterwill roll over to the strainer and enter the line.You want there to be no possible spot for water to hide when the tank is atthe same position it will be in the three-point position. If it can't enterthe lines at the three-point, but wants to collect near the back, install asump at the very back end of the tank and put a quick drain so you can drainthere and at the gascolator. Or be sure to raise the tail and slosh it overto the strainers.Also be sure all your fuel lines run downhill at all times, including at thethree-point position. I routed mine so the lines came down the cabanes,then ran forward along the fuse for a bit. I angled them down as they ranalong the fuse, but then noticed that with the tail down, they were actuallyrunning uphill a bit forming a sump which could have trapped some water atthe three point until the tail was raised at which point the water wouldtravel into the gascolator, AFTER I had drained the gascolator.Thanks again Kevin! And Shelley, I love how you're taking care of yourMAN!!Let's all be careful out there..Douwe________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 06:06:50 -0700 (PDT)
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