Insulate your fuel lines with fire sleeve. You'll find it listed with the fuel hoses in the Aircraft Spruce catalog.
-Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:11:58 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) "Myron (Dan) Freeman" <mfreem...@indy.rr.com> writes: > Hi Guys & Girls; > > > > I went to the airport today and prepped Ol' Blue for flight and > triple > checked everything. A OK this time and taxied toward the far end of > the > runway, wouldn't you know the wind was from the wrong end and it was > hot. > Well I didn't make it, it vapor locked before I could get there and > I couldn > t get it re-started. > > > > Might be a good thing though. It has a shielded fuel system with a > cooling > hose on the gas collator but not good enough apparently. So either I > fly it > in cooler weather or fix it right. I had an old English Ford that > would do > that in heavy, slow traffic but I carried a bottle of water in the > car to > pour on the fuel pump when it did it but of course I cannot do that > with Ol' > Blue. > > > > It has aluminum fuel lines that are completely un-covered so I think > I need > to start there and shield all of them some how kind of like you > would your > water pipes in your home. I can't use water pipe insulation but > aluminum > faced fiberglass wrap might work. Anybody have any suggestions as to > what to > use? > > I will not rush it. > > > > Regards, > > Myron (Dan) Freeman > > Indpls, Ind. 46203-3570 > > Home of the Indy 500, > > the World's most famous > > auto race. > > mfreem...@indy.rr.com > > > > Check out and join the > > the Independence Caucus to > > help save America from treason > > http://www.ourcaucus.com/index.html? ? > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > ____________________________________________________________ Need cash? Click to get a cash advance. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTFRJ8sJqDdSShLm11FlD406wBUMk4nRquUeWZ1k0nNpxEmlxqyY7m/
