REFLECTOR: Fuel System -- Return Fuel Flow

[Brian Michalk]

Do you have any thoughts about how much fuel you are returning to the sump?

On 12/8/2011 1:01 PM, Scott Derrick wrote:
> Continental engines can return quite a bit of fuel. At least the 520's 
> can.  The T210's have a known problem of overheating their sump tanks 
> with fuel return and there is a AD out to address that with the 
> electric aux pump.  The 210 has a system very much like ours but with 
> a little bitty sump, I think its 1/2 gallon.
>
> Since my sump is 3+ gallons I'm not concerned.  I draw from 4 inches 
> from the bottom of the sump and return to the top of the sump.  No 
> problem in 100 hours, some of those in 100+ F oat.
>
> Scott