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Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors

Posted By: Vic Roy
Date: Sunday, 5 March 2006, at 9:25 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors (STeveZ)

Well, if those are the engine mounts, you better get after them, and now, or you gonna have motors in the bilge.

If the hoses are too stiff to bend over and clamp off, change them. If you want to tempt fate and not do that, just find a machine screw the right size and thread it in the cut off hose, but you really need to change the hoses, they look like crap. Also you should have a shutoff at the tank for each fuel line and another on the tank side of each Racor that you can shut off when you drain the Racors without draining all the fuel in the line back to the tank.

The ball valve upgrade in the bottom of the plastic bowl is a pipe thread, think its 1/4. Use blue pipe dope on the threads, never teflon tape. Aviation Permatex will work fine too.

UV

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Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
STeveZ -- Sunday, 5 March 2006, at 8:31 p.m.

Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
Vic Roy -- Sunday, 5 March 2006, at 8:53 p.m.

Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
STeveZ -- Sunday, 5 March 2006, at 8:59 p.m.

Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
Vic Roy -- Sunday, 5 March 2006, at 9:25 p.m.

Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
bruce -- Monday, 6 March 2006, at 6:50 a.m.

Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
Capt. Dave Kosh -- Monday, 6 March 2006, at 9:42 a.m.

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Rawleigh -- Monday, 6 March 2006, at 10:31 a.m.

Re: Rusty, foul, rotten, unholy Racors
Jim -- Monday, 6 March 2006, at 9:11 p.m.