{"id":1263,"date":"2017-07-29T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:18:49","slug":"fuel-leak-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stol750project.info\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Leak Fix?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday morning I got to the hangar early to take a look at the fuel leak. First I had to remove the vinyl from the wing skin<\/p>\n

\"Vinyl<\/a><\/p>\n

And then remove all the rivets to get the skin off. It wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be though it sure was humid enough that I wished I was still in bed.<\/p>\n

\"Skin<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadly there was no obvious sign of the source of the fuel leak though some residue suggested that it was not from the fuel sender screws. So I decided my first course of action would be to remove the fuel line fitting and re-goop the threads with Loctite 567.<\/p>\n

\"Fuel<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to a lack of the right sized spanner, getting the fitting out was really tough, more so with the heat but I finally managed it.<\/p>\n

\"Fitting<\/a><\/p>\n

I cleaned it up and re-gooped and then struggled even harder to get it back in tight inside the fuel tank. Teri had come out so I wouldn’t suffer alone and she went off to get a new spanner that I hoped would fit. Unfortunately the size I guessed was too big but in a show of mercy from the gods I lucked out with the “metric wrench” and a regular one and boom it was in.<\/p>\n

For a bit of a break from the work, we installed some “Open” decals inside the doors.<\/p>\n

\"Door<\/a><\/p>\n

I put a couple of gallons in the tank and left.<\/p>\n

Going back to the hangar about 7 hours later there was no sign of a leak on the floor or on the bottom of the wing but….. when I looked inside the wing there was a tiny bead of fuel underneath the fuel line. This had to have been a different leak than before as this would take days to come through the skin and a little messing with the fuel line showed that I had not fully tightened it. So I tightened it and left for the day.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning I got out early again (though not as early as I thought since there were already 4 or 5 people in their hangars) and this time there was no sign of a leak anywhere. So fingers crossed this is now fixed.<\/p>\n

However…. the fuel gauge is showing empty even when there is 2-3 gallons in there. I decided I couldn’t face that and went back to bed, but I suspect that when I was cleaning up the fuel stain I pulled on the sender wire and it isn’t crimped on properly. I will look next weekend.<\/p>\n

Just to check that there really was 2 gallons still in the tank I drained it and confirmed. So, fingers crossed….. inspection in two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday morning I got to the hangar early to take a look at the fuel leak. First I had to remove the vinyl from the wing skin And then remove all the rivets to get the skin off. It wasn’t…<\/p>\n

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