X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTP id 1003032 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:58:22 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.165; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.71]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E26370123 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01639-11-66 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-78-176.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.78.176]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8971E37025F for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <42B05E03.3000602@frontiernet.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:57:39 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: fuel pump mounting ( fuel system architecture) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0524-2, 06/15/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter04.roc.ny.frontiernet.net It has one hell of a lot of POTENTIAL to cause trouble. I'm mounting mine way low just to take all those failure modes off the table. Nobody who ever had an inflight failure "thought" is would happen ... Jim S. WALTER B KERR wrote: >On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:02:49 -0500 David Staten >writes: > > >>I would be a little concerned about the pump being higher than the >>tank, >>given our recent discussions on vapor lock. Might work fine, but who >>knows.. >> >>Dave >> >> >--------------------------------------- > >Hi Dave, I hear you, but unless I'm sucking air in a leak between the >tanks do not "think" it is a problem. You saw my comments about test >during the 40 hour flyoff and have not experienced any difficulty yet. >Not sure how high on the firewall that Ed's pumps are and know Tracy's >are on the floor. > >Will be careful running tanks dry when I fly cross country to make sure >I'm with in gliding distance of an airstrip. > >Bernie > > > >>> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >>> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html >>> >>> > > > >