Fuel Line

[JayWoodring]

Has anyone ever had to change the fuel from the left tank to the fuel strainer? Just wondering how hard it is to get out because it looks very difficult. 

[RobertGary1]

The first but is just 5/8” hose as recall. The remainder is a hardline. 

[47U]

On 11/20/2021 at 12:07 PM, JayWoodring said:

Has anyone ever had to change the fuel from the left tank to the fuel strainer?

Do you have a picture or description of the discrepancy?  

[JayWoodring]

I do not have pic but I have a break in the left fuel line that goes from the tank to the fuel selector. 

[47U]

Your mechanic might be able to replace it with a hose and appropriate AN fittings if the bend radius isn’t too tight.  Without a picture, it’s hard to give good feedback.  I’m probably out on a limb, myself.

I’m wondering it Mooney installed those lines during manufacture before the wing was mated to the fuselage.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, JayWoodring said:

I do not have pic but I have a break in the left fuel line that goes from the tank to the fuel selector. 

Is the damage in an area that you can cut out about an inch of tube and flare the ends and insert a flared union?  It might be easier that replacing the entire line.

Clarence

[JayWoodring]

9 hours ago, 47U said:

Your mechanic might be able to replace it with a hose and appropriate AN fittings if the bend radius isn’t too tight.  Without a picture, it’s hard to give good feedback.  I’m probably out on a limb, myself.

I’m wondering it Mooney installed those lines during manufacture before the wing was mated to the fuselage.

I think they my have 

[Prior owner]

I replaced the entire left fuel line in my plane from the tank pickup interconnect hose to the fuel selector. I chose to do it in two pieces with a flared union in the middle where it comes out of the cockpit, under the floor. I swear that line looked hand formed from the factory….and I continue to wonder whether two people working together from above and below, given enough tries (wasted tubing), could manage to run it from above to below the floor, hand forming it into place. I tried twice doing it by myself and ultimately gave up, putting a flared union under the floor, instead.
 

The ideas above from 47U and M20Doc are good solutions. These are pretty much the only solutions if the problem is with the right fuel line, as that will require a whole lot more work on the older models to replace.

 

[JayWoodring]

11 minutes ago, PilotCoyote said:

I replaced the entire left fuel line in my plane from the tank pickup interconnect hose to the fuel selector. I chose to do it in two pieces with a flared union in the middle where it comes out of the cockpit, under the floor. I swear that line looked hand formed from the factory….and I continue to wonder whether two people working together from above and below, given enough tries (wasted tubing), could manage to run it from above to below the floor, hand forming it into place. I tried twice doing it by myself and ultimately gave up, putting a flared union under the floor, instead.
 

The ideas above from 47U and M20Doc are good solutions. These are pretty much the only solutions if the problem is with the right fuel line, as that will require a whole lot more work on the older models to replace.

 

 

15 hours ago, M20Doc said:

Is the damage in an area that you can cut out about an inch of tube and flare the ends and insert a flared union?  It might be easier that replacing the entire line.

Clarence

 

11 minutes ago, PilotCoyote said:

I replaced the entire left fuel line in my plane from the tank pickup interconnect hose to the fuel selector. I chose to do it in two pieces with a flared union in the middle where it comes out of the cockpit, under the floor. I swear that line looked hand formed from the factory….and I continue to wonder whether two people working together from above and below, given enough tries (wasted tubing), could manage to run it from above to below the floor, hand forming it into place. I tried twice doing it by myself and ultimately gave up, putting a flared union under the floor, instead.
 

The ideas above from 47U and M20Doc are good solutions. These are pretty much the only solutions if the problem is with the right fuel line, as that will require a whole lot more work on the older models to replace.

 

Thanks that is what I think I may have to do. Or I thought of taking off the wing root fairing and seeing that may let me get it done.