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James, Yep, I have felt that jolt of fear from a dropped nose tank wire. It's worth adding that into your second tier of instrument scans - the ones you do every 2-5 minutes. The smart guys will give you good information on debugging this but I've got a question: Why do you think you need a new fuel pump? From your description I don't see any fuel pump problems. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") -----Original Message----- From: jlsNS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] Cross-Country Glitches ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Alon N5655F owner and I took off over the craggy mountains in the Aircoupe I've been working on since May. We got bad coordinates for our destination and were looking for a field in the mountainous hinterlands when we noticed the fuel gauge had dropped and was barely bobbing. Thankfully there was enough fuel in the header tank to get us to Sevierville, TN. The other problem is that, while we were climbing out, our gas blew out the one wing tank filler cap with a ram-air hole in it. We estimate we lost a good third of our gas. And we just had John Wright, Jr. fix the leaks, so it's kind of late to have the system undergo the procedure to fix this overflow problem pursuant to the service letter in the service letters volume we bought from John Cooper after having sent the tanks off for re-welding and new rivets. I'd hate to pull that header tank out again, now that the bruises from reinstalling it have just recently faded away. So. We need a fuel pump and some kind of fix for that gas siphoning out that wingtank lid. As usual thanks in advance for the splendid courtesy we have always received during the restoration of this wonderful little Aircoupe. I'm inclined to buy a pump from John Cooper since he has been so helpful in the past. Glad to be alive today, James L. Smith somewhere in the mountains of western North Carolina, where I kissed the ground, after having gotten safely back upon it. ============================================================================ == To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers-tech/ ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers-tech/
