Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000429030202.00b76b30@olsusa.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 03:02:02 -0400
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
From: Marvin Kaye <marvkaye@olsusa.com>
Subject: Re: header tanks
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Posted for "Denis Conkey" <dconkey@yahoo.com>:

Reply to : "Curtis Krouse" 
>My kit did not come with the fuel
>cap installed or included with the header tank.  Is it ........ in your
>opinions.......... ok to leave the header tank without a fuel cap?  

I would certainly put a fuel cap in the header tank.  I don't have to use
it that often, but when I want make sure the fuel tanks are topped off
(including the header tank), it's nice to be able to put the fuel straight
into the tank.  Also saves on unnecessary use of the fuel transfer pump,
when you don't want to wait for it to fill up on the ground, which can take
some time.
  
Regarding the safety of the header tank, about 4 years ago, I was
unfortunate enough to run into a Stinson head on (parked on the grass on
the side of a small runway during an Antique Flyin) when I had a gear
partially raise on take off (before rotation speed).  This was a very
abrupt stop that bruised my shoulders from the seat belts from the impact
and caused fuel to leak out of one of the wing tanks, but the header tank
was not affected and did not leak a drop.  I have no qualms with the fuel
in the header tank just forward of where I sit.
  
...Denis
N235WC


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