{"id":1190,"date":"2013-03-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2013-03-26T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:33:04","slug":"12-2-3-fuel-pump-drain-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/12-2-3-fuel-pump-drain-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"12.2.3 Fuel Pump Drain Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 29 of 50 in the series 12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Once I got the drain on the mechanical pump I ran it over to the firewall and had it exit next to the electric fuel pump drain. The next day, I was talking to Malcolm and he mentioned that he likes to combine those two lines to avoid the “forest of drains poking out the bottom of the fuselage.”<\/p>\n

That’s all I needed to hear. When Malcolm Collier of Hangar 18 expresses a preference about something related to building a Velocity, it’s pretty much always worth doing.<\/p>\n

So I pulled the electric fuel pump drain line.<\/p>\n

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Spliced in a “tee” and routed the mechanical fuel pump drain line into it.<\/p>\n

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But now I’ve got a hole in the bottom of the fuselage… That I’ll use for the fuel distributor (spider) drain line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 29 of 50 in the series 12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Once I got the drain on the mechanical pump I ran it over to the firewall and had it exit next to the electric fuel pump drain. The next day, I was talking to Malcolm and he mentioned that he … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[36],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-12-engine-propeller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}