I am using two fuel pumps. The Aux was always quieter. Now they sound about the same. I guess since, IIRC, the primary was always louder I "assumed" it was normal and was just limited to the individual pump.
I was just reviewing Al Wick's sight. He hates the rotary (ok, that may be too strong, but he is not a fan). He is using a Subaru. I was looking at his sump tank. He is using in the tank pumps, which I do not wish to do as of right now. However, something
he did which I did kinda like was that he had his pumps drawing from different levels in the tank, like my motorcycle does for it reserve. That way, if the primary pumps runs dry, you can switch to the second pump and have a bit more fuel....hopefully
at least enough to pull your head out and get on the ground. This seems pretty easy, especially with inline pumps, to do and like a good idea. Seems as if you would just have to have one pump out location higher than the other and you have a bit of a reserve.
Yeah, you should be paying attention to fuel management but this seems like some cheap back up. However, I could be missing something as currently I am feeding both pumps from the same outlet. Thoughts?
Chris
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [flyrotary@lancaironline.net] on behalf of Bill Bradburry [bbradburry@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:15 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: fuel pump replaced
Chris,
Is there a difference in sound between the new pump and the old one you are still using? I think that they should both sound the same.
Mine do.
Bill B
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
On Behalf Of Chris Barber
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:43 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] fuel pump replaced
I replaced my faulty fuel pump. The new pump is MUCH more quite. I suspect the old one was on the way to failure for a while and finally when belly
up. It was really noisy. When I took it off I applied power to both independently and the old one was just plain dead.
I hope I have addressed the few gremlins that has kept me on the ground the last few weeks and will get to fly later today.
FWIW.
Chris Barber
Houston KEFD
Velocity SE