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The following is a mail that I sent out yesterday to the TECH list. I didn't receive it myself, so I'm not sure if it went anywhere. I hope it's OK to send it to the FLYIN list as an alternative. I would be grateful for any advice on this problem.... Yesterday, as I was on a long, slow taxi, fuel began to overflow from the header tank. This has actually happened at least two times before, and I thought I had it figured out. The previous time, the ramp dude had tanked the wing tanks all the way to the top (and poured some on the wing). As I was running up, fuel spewed out of the header tank. I shut down, drained about 2 gallons out, waited a while for the wing tanks to equalize, and tried again. This time, no fuel burbled out. Now, yesterday, I only had 4 gallons in each wing tank, and a full header tank, though no fuel was added to the header. It was just normal full from having flown recently. As I said earlier, it began to overflow while taxiing. Note: the bobber pegged at the top of the tube too. My question: Could it be that some debris, like a peice of the cork bobber, may be intermittantly obstructing the overflow drain? I can't think of anything else right now. Has anyone out there had a similar experience? Is the overflow line the one on the left, located on the rear of the tank? Norm N2601H ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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