Re: Its Changed! - New Fuel Filters
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Rene Robertson <q2robertson@...>
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I don't know if the Fram G3 filter is a paper element filter, but just a heads up about paper element filters, they are illegal here in Canda for aviation use. Transport Canada will not pass any aircraft with paper element filters. They have been proven to hold any water in the fuel and then block the fuel flow once water contaminated. I know this is unlikely in our Q-birds, but never say never. The filters that are recommended are sinthered bronze element filters. I've been using these clear sinthered element filters: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/fuelfilter.php Rene Q2 C-GTCA --- On Wed, 7/13/11, oneskydog@... <oneskydog@...> wrote:
From: oneskydog@... <oneskydog@...> Subject: Re: [Q-LIST] Its Changed! - New Fuel Filters To: Q-LIST@... Received: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 7:40 PM Jim, Glad to hear you got rid of the hot rod glass filters. The ratio is 30 square inches to 1 on filter area with the G3. Good to see you again and you are on the ride list. I am going to Alaska in 8 days for 3 weeks so once again progress stops. Regards, Charlie Johnson Ogden, Utah In a message dated 7/13/2011 5:09:44 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, logistics_engineering@... writes: Good Afternoon Charlie, I took your advise and finally bought Fram G3 fuel filters to replace my existing 1" glass ones. They were $3.50 ea. at Walmart. Over the years, the glass filters worked fine for me but it makes sense that with 6 times more filter area, I have 6 times less chance of getting them plugged up. For anyone still using glass filters, I would just mention that even though the filter appears to be clean when viewed thru the glass, you have to be very careful and check them on a regular basis because they can and will plug up. Case in point: a few years ago I was called by Tim Iverson who had landed and was stuck with his Dragonfly in Modesto, CA. He had flown back from Oregon and was having engine surges all the way down the coast, to the point he was getting very nervous. We took his glass fuel filter apart (header to carb)and found it was totally plugged (I plugged one end with my finger and blew into the other, nothing came out, even though it looked totally fine. Thanks again for the reminder and adding to my safety level. Regards, Jim Patillo N46JP Q200 ------------------------------------ Quickie Builders Association WEB site http://www.quickiebuilders.org Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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