I wrote a week ago about my wheel bearing adjustment problem, Well I also had a fuel smell in the cabin, and when I checked it out, I found a small leak in the R outer wing tank, it was weeping into the WAF area, thus the fumes leaked into the cabin via the inner wing.
I borrowed a 5 inch hole saw and cut into the bottom of the tank. I took photo's but seeing my web page is down I can not post them. I found a small area I believed to be leaking, but not sure, so I painted the complete inside of the fuel tank I could reach via the 5 inch hole. That was easy, but I could not decide how to fix thew 5 inch hole. I had a brain snap. I laid 3 lays of 5oz cloth larger than the 5 inch hole, on a flat surface. When dry, I cut a circle 7 inch diameter. I then cut a 1 inch hole in the centre to fit my finger through. >From underneath the wing I reached inside the tank and wet around the cut out with flox. I flexed the 7 inch circle to fit through the 5 inch hole, then using the finger hole I turned the disc around to embed it into the wet flox. When dry, I turned the wing over, I put more flox onto of the disc, which stops the cut out from falling into the tank. The wet flox oozed out the gap made by the hole saw, and that was it. I wiped off all the wet flox, when dry all I had was a nice neat 1/8 thick x 5 inch circle on the bottom of the wing that I will paint one day. Hope you can follow all that. Do not be afraid to have ago. It is only glass, easy to fix. Phil Matheson SAAA Ch 20 www.phils...@50megs.com
