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Followup …Bcone1381
Follow up: I moved the transducer off the firewall. I re-designed the fuel line route to reduced the length of line going thru the cowl area. The redcube now resides between cylinders 1&3 in cool air when we are flying. I have fixed the hot fuel issue in flight at 60F OAT. I will stay vigilant as summer heats up.
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Dugaru Revives the Tail Art Thread!
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131CM FS
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YME
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Followup …Bcone1381
Follow up: I moved the transducer off the firewall. I re-designed the fuel line route to reduced the length of line going thru the cowl area. The redcube now resides between cylinders 1&3 in cool air when we are flying. I have fixed the hot fuel issue in flight at 60F OAT. I will stay vigilant as summer heats up.
Hot Fuel issue
I have a non-RV experimental with a lycoming IO-360 with a Bendix RSA Fuel Injection. I am in phase one flight testing with about 20 hours on the enigine. I am starting to fix a hot fuel issue. I have a very tight cowl/baffle installation and a very tight engine intake. So I have very...
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pazmanyflyer
Tosten switch part #
I broke the flap switch off the grip yesterday. I was returning home to KGYR from KLRU, and I was placing my left foot down at the same time the wind caught the elevator and slapped the stick back under my foot and SNAP! Clean break. I have a second panel mounted switch I used to get home. I've...
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mcgaughy
Lower Cowl doesn't match plans with newer nose strut
Take a look at the attached photos. I was wondering if anyone else has ran into this...and if you did, you did you solve? RV7a with newer style cushion nose strut, horizontal induction cowl. The bottom of my cowl is level with the bolt holes for the gear strut leg fairing and it should be...
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dwollen89
Gear Attach Web Issue
I’m building a 7A fuselage. I began drilling the F7101 Gear Attach webs to the side skins and F713 auxiliary longeron. I couldn’t maintain a 1/4” edge distance along this line of holes. It’s short by about 1/32. I stopped when I realized the holes were not within edge distance. I don’t see any...
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Dugaru Revives the Tail Art Thread!
dr
WDYDWYRTW? 4 / 26-27 / 2025
...getting it started. Hoping you're having a nice one. v/r,dr
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131CM FS
FS: RV-8A N131CM. Less than 200 hrs TT.
$145,000 Less than 200 hours TT. [ed: I’m posting this for my mechanic/friend, Randy Richmond. If he says it's solid, it's solid. He’s the contact to reach out to if interested. His email is: rrv8er 'at’ yahoo ‘dot’ com. v/r,dr] Full size images at...
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docjjrmd
Wing Walk area..
Sorry about the double post but forgot to add to the previous post. Fuel tank sealant is called for in the wing walk area. As I have not yet ordered some, because I did not think I would need it this early in the build, is there anything I can substitute or better to stick with the fuel tank...
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hcccs
Wheel pants ground clearance
Does this wheel pant give enough ground clearance ?
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YME
Wing Nose Rib quesion
Started building the Left Wing per plans and have a question about the inner most Nose Rib. During construction of the Nose Ribs it calls out to add a Doubler and Nutplate to W-1208-R-1 and W-1208-L-1 Nose Ribs (page 15-02, fig 4)) which are Trimmed Fwd and Aft and are the inner most Nose Ribs...
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