Morning all. Took a drive to Synergy Air South in Newnan, GA to meet several RV builders yesterday. Dustin Stern is building a 14A with SDS injection, Krea Ellis is building a 10 with SDS, and Scott Calkins is finishing his 10. Charles Dempsey's 10 was there awaiting some decent flying weather. Had some long converstations with Allen Nelson, the head building supervisor, on what little things we may do to help THEM.
One of the things we found was they liked to use the Matco clear brake reservoir. Admittedly, it does look good, and you can see the brake fluid. BUT---it does provide a problem for install. The discharge port is on the bottom of the reservoir, verses the aft side on the Vans version. Also Vans has a pre-punched hole for its installation. Using the Matco version, it's mounted with the bracket from the top, and a series of NPT fittings pass through the firewall, and sealed with proseal. There wasnt a way to really secure the passthrough with a bulkhead fitting to a branch tee in the cabin. Secondly, the port and fitting is 3 inches lower than the standard location IF the reservoir bracket is screwed to the upper horizontal firewall rib.
SO----We think we'll work on a retrofit fitting for this. 2) its can utilize the original firewall hole IF the reservoir bracket is mounted above the horizontal rib with a doubler. Saves closing off the original hole and drilling another one.
I'll let you know how it turns out!
Tom
One of the things we found was they liked to use the Matco clear brake reservoir. Admittedly, it does look good, and you can see the brake fluid. BUT---it does provide a problem for install. The discharge port is on the bottom of the reservoir, verses the aft side on the Vans version. Also Vans has a pre-punched hole for its installation. Using the Matco version, it's mounted with the bracket from the top, and a series of NPT fittings pass through the firewall, and sealed with proseal. There wasnt a way to really secure the passthrough with a bulkhead fitting to a branch tee in the cabin. Secondly, the port and fitting is 3 inches lower than the standard location IF the reservoir bracket is screwed to the upper horizontal firewall rib.
SO----We think we'll work on a retrofit fitting for this. 2) its can utilize the original firewall hole IF the reservoir bracket is mounted above the horizontal rib with a doubler. Saves closing off the original hole and drilling another one.
I'll let you know how it turns out!
Tom