Hi Tom ... need the same fitting ! Any details . Part # , where you bought it , picture ? Thanks. Stew
Tom,For those of you with the Vans electric priming system and don?t have a gascolator on the firewall, where did you pipe the feed fuel to the solenoid from ?
Joe and Tom. Thanks so much as your sharing here saved me a whole bunch of rework ! Going to do as Joe did from the pity on the carb that used to be fuel pressure line to gauge ! Saved just a bunch of work and I like the idea of being on the engine side of the fuel pump .... I guess however that if the primer line fails we will be spraying fuel into the cowl ( scary ) at fuel pump pressure ? If primer line same off before pump thinking that since the primer line is very small that pump wouldn't suck too much air ... ok. Now I am not sure which is lesser of two evils ?? Have I got that right ?? Thanks. Stew
I originally purchased the primer solenoid kit while building my 7. During the build I purchased a 4 with no primer. Pumping the throttle 2 or 3 times when cold, using the accelerator pump in the carb for priming, worked fine for 4 years and 450 hrs, winter and summer. I removed the primer on the 7, which I had not flown yet, liking the idea of fewer things to go wrong. After 375 hrs in almost 3 yrs on my 7 and in weather down to -10C (using preheat) starting has never been an issue. FWIW.