{"id":672,"date":"2011-11-13T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2011-11-15T19:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T01:57:35","slug":"9-7-1-fuel-sump-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/9-7-1-fuel-sump-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"9.7.1 Fuel Sump Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"33\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 2 of 18 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/09-fuel-system\/\">09 - Fuel System<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The manual calls for the sump drain to be installed in the bottom of the sump. A hole is then cut into the bottom of the fuselage.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm has a different approach. Install the sump drain remotely. Move it forward and to the pilot side. This approach has two benefits. One; In the event of a gear up or gear collapse, the fuel system will remain intact. Two; It is easier to drain the sump to check for fuel contaminates.<\/p>\n<p>First a pilot hole is drilled through the fuselage close to the whaletail and pilot side wiring duct. Then the hole in enlarged from the outside to accommodate the drain valve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-13-DSC_0097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-673\" title=\"2011-11-13 DSC_0097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-13-DSC_0097-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then the pilot hole is enlarged to accept the tubing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-13-DSC_0099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-674\" title=\"2011-11-13 DSC_0099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-13-DSC_0099-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the 1\/4&#8243; fuel line is run from the sump, through the gear bulkhead to the drain valve elbow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-13-DSC_0103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-675\" title=\"2011-11-13 DSC_0103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-13-DSC_0103-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"33\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 2 of 18 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/09-fuel-system\/\">09 - Fuel System<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The manual calls for the sump drain to be installed in the bottom of the sump. A hole is then cut into the bottom of the fuselage. Malcolm has a different approach. Install the sump drain remotely. Move it forward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/9-7-1-fuel-sump-drain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"series":[33],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","series-09-fuel-system"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}