5th yr condition inspection

Mine's due in Sept. Would appreciate if those who have already been there would highlight critical items obstacles such as fuel pump replacement, hoses, carbs work, and or anything else that may have turned up. Many thanks.
Dick Seiders 120093

Ok so no one wants to talk about this and that's ok. So would anyone help me with where to find hoses with firesleeve and/or without for the total hose renewal deal after 5 yrs of great flying? I suppose I could call Vans but thought I would get re acquainted with all ya'll. Thanks.
Dick Seiders 120093
ps need new fuel pump as well.

Call Tom for your new hoses. His website is www.tsflightlines.com

Hi Dick,

Is this on a SLSA or ELSA RV-12?

The hose replacement isn't hard. It's more time consuming over anything else. Should take one day if you have the tools and or some experience.
You'll need carb rubber sockets, carb socket "O" rings, carb diaphragms, 66mm carb balance tube hose, Possibly fuel hose depending on what hose you have installed. 17mm coolant hose, 1 x 90 degree 17mm coolant hose, oil hoses, 1" (25mm) coolant hose. A gallon of anti-freeze, some extra oil and the ability to do an oil purge.

Fire sleeve is reusable. You'll need some band clamps like Oetiker or Fuel injection clamps. You'll need some Band-It clamps for the fire sleeve. If you must use a worm drive clamp use a Wurth raised rib clamp and not the serrated worm drive clamp like you get at Ace Hardware.

Everything is straight forward. Take one thing off at a time and put it back like you found ait and you won't have any problems.

Do you mean the engine mounted fuel pump? Do you still have the old style, or did you replace it per the Rotax SB and now need another one?

Reports are that replacing the fuel lines with the permanent replacement from TSFlightlines is the way to go. Check schmetterlingaviation.com for a good review.
http://www.schmetterlingaviation.com/2013/11/fueling-around-part-deux.html

That's what I'll do when it comes time...

May not need to replace all hoses

If I read some of the previous thread comments and the revised maintenance manual correctly. only the Rotax-supplied hoses must be replaced at 5 years. Hoses supplied by Van's (I.e., any hose with a VA part number., mostly oil hoses) don't need replaced until 10 years. Could Scott weigh in?

Wayne

Thanks for the feedback all.
Response to ?:
ELSA
old style (original) pump
I will check out hose suppliers
dick seiders 120093

The fuel pump replacement is really simple 15 minute job with a coffee break.

yankee-flyer said:

Hoses supplied by Van's (I.e., any hose with a VA part number., mostly oil hoses) don't need replaced until 10 years.

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That is correct.

Well now that is good news! Thank you. Not only reducing expenses but an extra 5yrs on the oil hoses also means we don't have to purge the oil system which as I recall was a tiresome procedure.
(actual pause here to check manual)
I just looked at the Rotax manual and unfortunately it calls for a tank cleanout at 200 hrs. Still- not having to replace the oil hoses and firesleeve is a big plus.
dick seiders 120093

Dick,

At the ROTAX course the instructor said the 200 hour tank disassembly for cleaning isn't worth the trouble. In the end we all decide what we need to do and live with the consequences.

Rich

Dick and All,

Here is a review of the installation on the RV-12 hose package that Tom and I developed for the RV-12.

http://www.schmetterlingaviation.com/2013/11/fueling-around-part-deux.html

Have a great week, and feel free to contact either of us with any questions.

Steve

Aircraft Specialty said:

Dick and All,

Here is a review of the installation on the RV-12 hose package that Tom and I developed for the RV-12.

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Really helpful link. Thanks for documenting so clearly - I'm a few years away from doing this myself, so I hope I can find this link when I actually need it! B

We have to give credit to Dave G for doing the excellent pictures for the 912 fuel line installation manual.

We utilized his blog as a good starting point for the 912 fuel line installation manual. That manual is located on our website under the RV-12 Fuel Line retrofit page.

Also, thanks to all of our beta testers whom we work with on many of our projects. Without you, we wouldn't be able to bring out the multitude of items for a variety of different aircraft that we do.

Steve