| Hours today: | 2.0 | Hours FF: | 41.5 | Hours total: | 768.1 |
| Rivets today: | 0 | Rivets FF: | 54 | Rivets total: | 15 480 |
It is the New Year! I had spent a relaxed couple of hours preparing the fuel selector:
Fuel selector
All the ports on the fuel selector are supplied not screwed in, in case they need to be removed for fitting. In the case of the Sling, they don’t, so step #1 was to fit each one with four small screws, all loctited, then punch a witness mark on each screw. The each port required an NPT right angle adapter (brass in the photo) and a bayonet fitting (blue in the photo).
My manual directs an 8mm pipe for fuel to the engine, with a 6mm return (both inside diameters). The Rotax manual recommends 8mm both ways.
At this point I was getting pretty fed up with the factory documentation, because all I had was the firewall forward drawings, 12 pages with a great deal missing. I needed some expert advice, and preferably a lot of pictures of a working 912 iS Sling installation. Luckily, the factory opens tomorrow.
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