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Hi Ian I hope spring in Australia is nicer than fall in Ontario.
(we've already had our first snow storm about 2 months early)
I started with the standard Murphy sight gauges and venting. Each side
separate and a vent hole at the back of the fuel filler neck. I then
added the cross vent that came as a service bulliten a few years ago
after an incident where all the fuel in one tank siphoned out the vent
in the other tank on a plane bound for Oshkosh. The cross vent tees
into the top sight gauge fitting replacing the origional elbow
fitting. I have had trouble with the engine quitting when cranking and
banking with low fuel so a couple years ago I blocked off the vents in
the filler necks and added a ram air vent tube sticking up out of the
wing root fairing. At the same time I changed all the plastic fittings
and rubber hose to aluminum tubing and flare fittings. My fuel system
works very well now and if I hold a wing up just a bit I can fly till
it is completly dry . The sight gauges slosh up and down a bit but if
you watch for not very long you can average the sloshes out to see how
much is there. I have read that the sloshing can be dampened by
partially blocking the lower fitting But I have not bothered trying
that yet. I am usually looking for fuel when I get down to 25 litres in
my last tank anyways.
Drew
>G'day Drew
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>Despite my best efforts I can't get the sight gauges in my Rebel to work
>well.
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>Would it be possible for you to give me a description of how you did it, or
>even better, a sketch would be nice!
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>thanks and regards
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>Ian Donaldson
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>My murphy rebel uses clear sight gauges. The bottom outlet has to be
>: separate from the fuel line not just tee'd in. Use tygothane for the
>: sight tube as most other plastic lines will discolour and go brittle
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>My murphy rebel uses clear sight gauges. The bottom outlet has to be
>separate from the fuel line not just tee'd in. Use tygothane for the
>sight tube as most other plastic lines will discolour and go brittle
>in no time flat.
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Re: wing tank fuel guage
