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What if the water is in the aux side & gets pumped over in flight?
All the 'conventional wisdom' says that water falls out of suspension in gasoline very quickly. If you think about it, the fuel truck can put 20-30 gal. in your plane in a couple of minutes (should 'homogenize' the water pretty well), yet you can sump the tanks within seconds & find water if any was pumped in with the fuel. It's not hard to believe that you could fill the entire system, from pump through injector rail, back to tank & into pump again, with water.
FWIW,
Charlie
daveleonard@cox.net wrote:
You may have a point there, Charlie. If I were to get a quart of water I would sure notice something as soon as I tried to start the engine, but it would then be difficult to mix/remove that much water. Will have to think about that one.
Dave Leonard (anyone know a good crow recipe?)
Make the test valid & put at least a quart of water & a couple of teaspoons of sand & grit in there.
I ain't kidding.
Then let us know the result of the test.
You might want to run this test before leaving for Mexico, too.
If we had a perfect world your caps would never leak even if the plane stays outside for a week in the rain at OSH or SNF (or Mexico) and it would never need washing, refueling etc, etc and you could be sure that no one had touched your fuel system except you through all those times....
NTSB records show that more than one person has gotten far more than a quart of water from the fuel truck.
Charlie
(Very aware of the true meaning of 'aircraft quality') ;-)
daveleonard@cox.net wrote:
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