REFLECTOR: fuel feed - my solutions

[Jim Sower]

I could live with that.  Is the factory check valve 0.5 cracking 
pressure, or only Wayne's  ... Jim S.

SlvEgl99 at aol.com wrote:

> Gee, this is interesting.
>  
> How about someone trying something. Take a Velocity rigged as the 
> factory says, plug the vent opening, fill it with fuel, tape over the 
> filler caps, taxi around a bit and see if:
>  
> 1. the strakes collapse from vacum.
> 2. The engine stops.
> 3. Somehow, mysteriously the factory designed back up valve opens and 
> nothing happens except the oil temp gets too high to continue taxiing.
> 4. something else happens.
>  
> If one wanted to be gutsy he could orbit over the field and land if 
> the low-sump light comes on.
>  
> Bob Wood
> N658SE
>
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