Fuel Line setup for A mintor 170

[Nat Penton]

Wayne, bless you. I'm hooking up a tank right now and could not decide what to do with the vent line. The answer was so simple.        Nat
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Galligan 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:03 AM
  Subject: Re: Fuel Line setup for A mintor 170


  Michael,

  Do you remember how I had the Mintor set up on the Aries you flew when you where down here.  Very simple and easy.  I used two 90 degrees Tetra elbows that came out side of the fuse.  Run just one line to the engine and one line back top the tank.  Just space  the elbows so you can put about 1 1/2" of tubing on them and fuel it there. I never have any problem with flooding.  Run the vent line behind the fuel tank and exit out the bottom of the fuse.  This way you wont have fuel coming out the vent line on the downlines.

  Wayne G.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Michael Laggis 
    To: NSRCA 
    Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 8:19 PM
    Subject: Fuel Line setup for A mintor 170


    Well to let you all know the mintor is running beautiful.  I have about 3/4 of a gallon through it now.  One thing I did was instead of pulling the fuel line off of the pump and filling the tank on the test stand I put in a T and fuel dot.  However when filling I soon found that not only did the tank start filling but the engine was getting flooded.  I have seen where people run the fuel line outside  the airplane off of 2 fittings.  Would this be a better solution?  I know the YS DZ guys have the same problem.  What is everyone else doing besides using a pair of hemostats?    

    Thank You

    Michael Laggis
    AKA Moose Boy
    NSRCA 3618 
    http://www.alaskarc.org
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