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Old 06-17-2008 | 05:33 PM
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I'm new to gas engines and don't really know how to set up the vent for the fuel tank. On glow you connect the vent line to the nipple on the exhaust pipe. How do you set it up on a gas set up?
Old 06-17-2008 | 05:39 PM
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Just run it out the bottom of plane, Gas engines need no tank pressure plus you might set your plane on fire if you hook it to the muffler

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Old 06-17-2008 | 06:26 PM
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Don't forget to run the vent line back over the top of the tank back past the end of the tank then back to the front to go out the bottom.

This vent line loop will prevent fuel from leaking out when inverted and in long dives.

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Old 06-17-2008 | 07:13 PM
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Mr G is correct make sure you loop the line.
Old 06-17-2008 | 07:55 PM
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Cool, thanks.
Old 06-17-2008 | 10:32 PM
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And....put a filter on the vent line as it usually is right behind the prop blast....lots of stuff can get sucked up into that vent line and into the tank...then into the carb.
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Hello I have been running the vent line to just ahead of the tail wheel, or all the way to the rear of the fuselage, just another way to do it, this way no fuel can escape from the tank during wild aerobatics.

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