Mike
The fuel pump and gas collator could be installed in the tunnel if you are
building a trigear. On a Mono, the fuel lines run nicely in the top corner
of the tunnel. They will have to go into the Engine compartment through the
Stainless Steel unless you bring them inside the cockpit and then through
the firewall with a bulkhead fitting. I did it both ways, first through the
SS on Bob's Mono, and then into the cockpit at the very front of the tunnel
and then through the firewall. This last method allows for a very nice way
to connect the engine fuel hoses to a solid fitting.
Battery Not everyone puts the batter in the back. I have mine in the
engine compartment ware it belongs. Yes it moves the CG foreword. That is
not all bd. The way my plane came out, it would take a very heavy load of
baggage to get an aft CG. I don't think a foreword Cg is bad. Most Europas
require nose down trim when in cruse anyway.
Remember, I am "amanature builder"
Cliff Shaw
1041 Euclid ave.
Edmonds, WA 98020
425 776 5555
http://www.europaowners.org/WileE
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> To those that have done it from those that are trying to do it.
> Is there another place to mount the fuel pump to avoid feeding pipework
> back to the baggage bay then forward again?
> How have people routed the fuel pipe from the pump to the engine ?
> Manual says run the pipe under the brake cylinder forward but this would
> put it too close to the wheel and the flap tube.
> Why should we mount the battery in the stb compartment of the baggage bay
> and then route the cables up the port side to the panel?
> How are you running the battery cables forward?
> How do we get the fuel pipes and the cables through the firewall?
> Help.
> Mike Gamble
> XS 440
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