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Will,
Changing the fuel pickup installation is probably
#3 on my "If I had to do this again..." list. Knowing what I know now, I'd
get a few of those FU3 fittings from Lancair and mount them as low in the
outboard BL50 rib as possible, trimming one side so the finger strainer sat just
off the bottom of the lower wing skin. This will give you more options
when you run your fuel lines, especially since you're going to have to run 3/8"
line instead of the 1/4" line that those of us who have header tanks are
using.
The slosh doors were added fairly late in the
320/360 life cycle (at least when the manual was changed ), as my 1997 kit has
the cutouts in the BL74 ribs as the only slosh prevention
mechanism.
Gary Fitzgerald
LNC2
extra-slow build ~70%
engine: TBD
St. Charles, MO
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Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:21
PM
Subject: [LML] Lancair 360 Slosh
Bay
Did you change your fuel pick up from the
manual's way? I am thinking I am going to use the finger strainers, like
the one that would have gone in the header tank, that the sell. They are
the required 3/8". My question is: should they be bent back like
in the manual to be parallel to the ribs, or is it ok for them to be
perpendicular? That do you guys think? Thanks in
advance.
Will
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