Wayne,
Hmm. That's a real possibility. If both sides of the cap gasket are not more or less equally compressed, one side could have a gap under it while the other side could be tight enough to make it hard to put the cap on and take it off. That could also explain why so much fuel streams out of the caps when the tanks are full and the plane is climbing out. Thanks a lot Wayne, you just gave me something else to do this weekend! ;>) Best Regards, Wayne DelRossi -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Woollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:00 pm Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Tank cleaning One source of water in the tanks is under the filler cap gaskets. The gasket is probably not seating all the way around the perimeter of the filler spout. The spout is flat on top and the "ears" of the filler cap are supposed to seal it down on two sides, one narrow lip, and one broad lip. My guess is that the broad lip is seating and the narrow lip is not due to the fact that it takes "King Kong" to seat and turn the cap when it is perfectly seated. Wayne W. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Tank cleaning Ed, My cap gaskets look OK, but obviously the water is getting in there somehow, so maybe I do need new, more pliable cap gaskets. I tried siphoning the bottoms of my tank during the last annual inspection, but I couldn't get the end of the hose down to the bottom inboard corner of the fuel tanks because of the ribs being in the way. Or if I did get it down there, I couldn't tell that it was down there. Does anyone have a good method of getting the siphon hose to the bottom inboard corner of the tank? Thanks, Wayne -----Original Message----- From: Ed Burkhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:07 pm Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] Tank cleaning Wayne wrote: > I stll get water in the tanks when washing the plane. Usually > it takes several iterations of sumping the tanks, shaking the > plane, waiting a few minutes and then sumping the tanks > again to get all of the water out. Wayne, Perhaps you should double check the gaskets on your fuel caps. Also, you might find it cleans the tanks faster to “vacuum” them using a hose/probe, siphoning the fuel/pollution into a container. I haven’t tried it but others use it to clean their tanks periodically. It seems appropriate for your need. Just an idea or two. Ed Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com
