Mark33
Well Known Member
I have been flying my -7 for a little over a year now. About a month ago I put it in the hangar with full fuel. Yesterday, I was doing a preflight and noticed a lot of blue on the bottom of one of my wings. I ended up pulling the tank off to do a full inspection of the problem. I had previously installed two fairly large inspection plates on the back side of the tanks to enlarge the small holes in the ribs so that it would take on fuel faster and to install a piece of tubing for my return line for my EFII systems so that the warm return fuel would dump into the outside bay. I'm baffled at what I found. The pro-seal has basically disengage....it's just a gummy mess. What's even stranger is that it's only disintegrated along the bottom seam of the tank and along the bottom forth of the sides of the inspection panels that I installed and around the bottom screws that's holding the plates. It's like there was some kind of contamination in the fuel that settled into the bottom of the tank and has destroyed the pro-seal. The upper three forth of the tank and plates are just fine. Has anyone ever heard of this? What's even stranger is that I filled both tanks at the same time but the other tank isn't showing in signs of a leak. So, with all this being said, I'm afraid that this tank has been compromised to a point that I'm going to have to install a new one. The problem that I have right now is that I don't have the time to build a new one. I know I've seen a previous post or two of someone that builds tanks. I've searched the forum but I can't seem to locate that information. Can someone provide me with the contact information of the person that builds tanks? Can I possibly buy a prebuilt one from Vans?
Thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.