----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- The caveat here is that Frank's plane has an O200 with electric fuel pump, so the circumstances are a bit different than with the old mechanical pump.
I got a face-full of gas on Saturday after fueling, because I was parked on a hill in such a fashion as to put the gas in the header away from the overflow. I then turned on the electric pump a bit before starting the engine, filling the header really full and taxied off. A dollop came out of the header vent when I hit level ground. So I killed the electric pump. I don't know if that was what stopped it or if I just hit level ground, but the float went back where it belonged within a few seconds. With full or full-ish tanks in an Ercoupe, there WILL be some circumstances where fuel will move around so as to overflow one tank or another. But it shouldn't happen all the time, and it should really never happen when all the tanks aren't full. I do notice that N99387 tends to have the header full all the time because the pump never slows down with engine RPM, or indeed with the engine all the way off. So there is a more constant full-flow recirculation. Also, '387 still has the 5-gallon header. That probably makes a difference. With that extra gallon not there, I'm just as glad to have it full-up :-) Greg At 11:50 AM 11/12/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Exactly what happens to mine ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email 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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