Ed is right. The header tank serves the purpose to create the correct inlet pressure to your carburetor and is also your 1 hour backup source of fuel. A backup system to the engine driven pump would require some plumbing and more wires behind your panel. But even with one installed, one still would have to recognize the other pumps failure first. That is only visible by the sinking float. Then you might as well land ASAP. The probability of a fuel pump failure and no feasible landing spot in the vicinity of 45 minutes of flight is rare. If I wanted to cross an Ocean, I would like that other backup though. Hartmut
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:24:41 -0500Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] Electric Fuel Pump Rich asked:> Has anyone installed an electric fuel pump to back > up the engine driven unit?Rich,Sure, those few who removed the header tank have done so. Some others have,perhaps with a change to a larger engine.But the header tank IS your backup for the engine driven fuel pump in aCoupe. If the fuel pump fails, you have a high speed hour of cruising.Even if you don't notice the problem for half that time, you still haveenough fuel for a fine landing just about anywhere in the country.I would not complexify a Coupe's fuel system by adding an additional fuelpump. I DID and ALWAYS WILL look at that nose tank float wire every fewminutes - at least every ten minutes.No way will I let myself run out of gas in a Coupe! (I'd feel so dumb Icould never show my face in public again!)EdEd Burkheadhttp://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm East Peoria, Illinoised -at- edbur???khead.??com (remove the ? marks and change -at-to @) _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008
