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Bob What I have found is if the planes gets flown regularly the car gas is a good as any BUT if it sits too long car gas will gunk up where Avi. gas doesn't. We haven't flown the plane enough to take that chance. That's one of the reasons I'am selling 49H. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Saville <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim Phelps <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sydney Cohen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; Jan E Zanutto <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:11 AM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] FUEL CATCH 22.doc Hi Jim, I'm no expert on fuels as to which is better than another. I know the people who had my plane before I bought it in 1986. I also know the guy they (partners) bought it from. This goes back to the late '50s or early '60's. We've all used car gas during these many years. I fianally made it legal and got the STC and entered it into my log books shortly after I bought the plane. I very rarely need to add fuel away from my own airport as I'm usually just a short distance flyer. Rarely do I get more than 125 to 150 miles away from home base so I don't need to worry about fuel before I get home. So far, the car gas has done no harm to anything. Of corse if the Stromberg falls off during the next flight I suppose we could blame it on the car fuel. Come to think of it, I had a brass elbow on it and about 4 or 5 years ago I discovered a crack so I replaced it. I wonder if the car gas caused the crack since it only had a single brace on it. Perhaps it wasn't strong enough to support all that lead in the car gas????? ;-) Bob Saville Jim Phelps wrote: 2749H is a stock 415-C made in Sept. of 46 it has the sight gauge on the left side of the inside of the plane and it's never given a speck of trouble. My Dad had a 46 coupe 99136 picked up new in KC MO in June of 46 and it had the sight gauge in the plane. I would say yours is not stock...I read of all the trouble with sight gauges and fuel troubles. My observation from reading all these reports is, Auto Gas does more harm to the fuel system than 100LL does to the engine. Jim Phelps ----- Original Message ----- From:Bob Saville <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sydney Cohen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jan E Zanutto <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] FUEL CATCH 22.doc I have a stock ol' 415C from back in the 1946 era. It still has the brass floats with wire gauges in all three tanks. Call 'em what you want, but I like having a 'positive reading' gauge in each tank. This way I know 'exactly' what the status is in all three tanks, but I only watch the one in front of my eyes. As long as it's still bouncing around at 'full staff' I'm happy. When it starts moving, I start looking.....for an airport. If my wing wires are riding on the top of the cap I know I'm low on fuel. If the wing wires are still riding high, I know I've lost a fuel pump. Either way, it's time to start hunting for a gas pump. Bob Saville Sydney Cohen wrote: ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Jan, we have the cork-and-wire guage in the header tank and, if we have 9 gallon wing tanks, the sight guage in the left tank. If we have 7.7 gallon wing tanks, commonly called 8 gallon tanks, we have the cork-and-wire guage there. No need to call the wing tanks "auxilliary tanks." I'm sure the Feds would not go for that designation, anyway, since there is quite a bit of plumbing and the fuel pump between the wing tanks and the header tank. Syd Cohen Jan E Zanutto wrote: ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Fuel gauges need not be provided for small auxiliary tanks which are used onlyto transfer fuel to other tanks ~~~ I'm pretty sure that this covers our coupes.It can be argued that our outer tanks have no other purpose than to feed the header tank..... which has it's own gauge. The CARs are published on the FAA.GOV website. It would benefit us all to read them and become familiar with them. Any "ramp check" needs to be conducted in accordance with the regulation that the aircraft was designed and built under. The basic cockpit layout of the Ercoupe violates FAR 21, which states that the instruments need to be within view of the pilot and visible within X number of degrees from the side. Our planes have instruments spread all over the place in such a fashion that you need to poke your head over into your passenger's personal space to read them; but it was ok under the CARs. Jan ZFresno ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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