X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:23:43 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from web54403.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.133] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.0) with SMTP id 2718172 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:03:35 -0500 Received: (qmail 82463 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Feb 2008 21:03:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=5NgXXcMUHM0oxQH3FplRqZuPZ6YEsRDft4QaO+aWXIAQiGn41qo3USSzAmXHWVxlc7A40+YUyqDgdYfmPuf8p8a6YEwEqRtGCiGac8ooFO1pxxIw8dskox6wg/MtiYvctz6xe5QdMbKYG2uDVeca6YBcQWs91ebOsJ8pi88ME+Q=; X-YMail-OSG: aPDVIJYVM1n6KTFd4YO6VD5O4b_Fmm6yu4qK0rvVjHyR5yym1FZ7ezTvL1rtJaD0JyxJP7.xllxy__K0R40XlEb_8Vj8AlQ3Lke95hT363ZnPpmfU7ibmUSOGGMDK2Mfz6cOi3XkoojkDHvX9hUAh1pEQg-- Received: from [208.187.197.66] by web54403.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:03:34 PST X-Original-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:03:34 -0800 (PST) From: randy snarr Subject: Re: [LML] Re: 235/320/360 gear dump valve idea X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1131920959-1202331814=:80912" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-Message-ID: <569495.80912.qm@web54403.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1131920959-1202331814=:80912 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thanks for the info David... David Lowry wrote: This is exactly how the Legacy gear system is designed. With the way the hydraulic system is currently designed, you equalize the pressure on the high and low sides when it is opened. For those of us who have pressure gauges, you can see that you can have significant pressure on the system even when the valve is opened. I want to be able to not only equalize the pressure between the high and low sides of the hydraulic system with the dump valve but also release the pressure on both sides. Today I purchased a 3 way valve to do just that. The idea is to open the valve connecting the high and low sides and also releasing the pressure back to the tank. I will most likely run a low pressure line like nylaflow back to the pump and make spin up a custom fitting on the lathe out of aluminum to go into the dipstick hole and terminate the return line there. I will make a needle dipstick checker that will screw into the same fitting for checking fluid level. If you wanted to do it the easy way, you could always just dump the low pressure line out the belly of the airplane onto the ground. It would take very little fluid to drop the pressure and there would be no need to deal with connecting the low pressure fluid line to the tank. --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. --0-1131920959-1202331814=:80912 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thanks for the info David...

David Lowry <dave@edt.com> wrote:
This is exactly how the Legacy gear system is designed.
 

With the way the hydraulic system is currently designed, you equalize the pressure on the high and low sides when it is opened. For those of us who have pressure gauges, you can see that you can have significant pressure on the system even when the valve is opened. I want to be able to not only equalize the pressure between the high and low sides of the hydraulic system with the dump valve but also release the pressure on both sides.

Today I purchased a 3 way valve to do just that. The idea  is to open the valve  connecting  the high and low sides and also releasing the pressure back to the tank.
I will most likely run a low pressure line like nylaflow back to the pump and make spin up a custom fitting on the lathe out of aluminum to go into the dipstick hole and terminate the return line there. I will make a needle dipstick checker that will screw into the same fitting for checking fluid level.
If you wanted to do it the easy way, you could always just dump the low pressure line out the belly of the airplane onto the ground. It would take very little fluid to drop the pressure and there would be no need to deal with connecting the low pressure fluid line to the tank.


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