Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:31:15 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from aerosurf.net ([216.167.68.224] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.3) with ESMTP id 2569842 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:27:11 -0400 Received: from ieee.org [208.252.252.82] by aerosurf.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AC8E489E0076; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:34:22 -1000 X-Original-Message-ID: <3F5A0ABD.1090202@ieee.org> X-Original-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:26:37 -0700 From: "Charles R. Patton" Reply-To: charles.r.patton@ieee.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] fuek pump fitting References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit belle and Fred Baron wrote: >OK, I took the advise of all you savy builders and moved my Dukes Fuel Pump from the firewall (outside) , to under my seat. The installation went quite well, xcept that now I need and overflow line to the outside.I am having a terrible time finding the proper fitting. It seems to be smaller than a 1/8 inch pipe thread. Can anyone tell me exactly what they used. Sincerely, Fred N9BF > > > It's a standard screw thread. I forget the size, but the Dukes has two weep ports 180 degrees apart,, and one should be filled with a set screw. Take it out and match it. I turned some threads on a small piece of brass rod, and drilled it through to make it a pipe that screwed into the appropriate hole. It was only about an inch and a half long. Since the pump is mounted on the belly skin, I just drilled the belly in the appropriate place and stuck the overflow through. (Actually I drilled first, then stuck down the bracket with pump in it) So I "match mounted" the pump to the hole. After that I cut off the the overflow pipe to almost be flush with the skin, keeping a very small angle to prevent air pressurization. Chas.