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What a great idea, Jon! I'm going to make one and try it out. I noticed the boss on the carb bowl too, and today when I pulled the plug I did it with the tail lowered and then opened the header tank valve, which let some gas run through it as well. Does anyone have an opinion on products that are supposed to remove water in the fuel? Are these additives safe, assuming you are STC for auto fuel (and the fuel system can strand auto additives), or is this a fundamentally bad idea (additives). Artie -----Original Message----- From: Jon Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ercoupe Subject: Re: [COUPERS-TECH] Carb bowl Artie. To make sure you get all the water out of your fuel tanks you may want to make up a useful tool that I have used many times. It consists of some small,[1/4"] aluminum tubing and some clear plastic[vinyl] tubing. Cut two pieces of aluminum tubing about two feet long and bend them to fit into the inner corners of the nose and wing tanks. Join them with about four feet of the clear tubing. File the tubing so that the end will sit flat aginst the bottom of the tank. One end for the wing tank and the other end for the nose tank. Now you can syphon fuel from the tanks down to a clean container. Move the end of the tubing around in the lowest parts of the tanks and you'll be suprised how much water, bugs, paint chips and other debris you vacuum up! This simple tool is easy to make and no coupe should be without one. Also, pulling the drain out of the bottom of the carb may not get all the water out. If I remember correctly, The boss that the drain plug screws into, is raised up about 1/8 or 3/16" above the bottom of the carb bowl bottom. Whoever designed something like this wasn't thinking what he was doing. It is very important to keep all water out of the carb! It doesn't burn worth a damn. Quite often just draining fuel, even lots of it, will not get the water out of the low places. Hope this helps. Jon Page. FLAK MAGNET. ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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