Fuel Pressure Fitting

Just a short morning this weekend thanks to some events going on today and a work trip to Tokyo tomorrow.

First thing on entering the hangar – the towel under the leak was wet, the pilot side line is still leaking. Grrr, and of course I made that nice cover for it last week. Well, that is out, needed to get more space in there for getting the spanner on the fittings. There was quite a bit of tightening available which is alarming, but now I hope the leak is fixed. Anyway, tank is gassed up and new paper put underneath. Keep your fingers crossed.

Not sure now if I mentioned that I bought a fuel pressure sender. At the recommendation of the instructions it is mounted to the firewall and I will run a hose to a fitting on the engine. Last week it wasn’t at all obvious what fitting that was but some web based research revealed the answer (a 10mm x 1.0 if you are curious) and so I ordered a couple of fittings from Summit Racing to get the job done. A hex key enabled the removal of the stopper from the pressure sensor fitting on the fuel distribution block and the fitting installed

Note that in order to get it on, the fuel return barb had to be loosened and rotated out of the way. Another fitting was installed into the pressure sender

The only thing stopping this from being finished is some firesleeve which I will order just as soon as I’ve published this. Am also going to get some for the fuel return line.

I drove to MGL during the week and hand delivered the panel for repair. I was able to get some good conversation with Matt, learned that the oil and coolant temps only register above 70F which is why right now they say 32. I was talking about how I had lost the retaining ring for the music input jack and he was super kind to give me one off a harness he had laying around. So it is now finally attached to the panel.

Lastly I safety wired the throttle sheaths to the throttle wire assembly

and (not pictured) drilled a hole in the front wheel fork either side and safety wired the bolt to the fork.