GASCOLATOR INSTALLATION-RV4

The gascolator is a difficult item to install in a clean and professional way in the RV4.  It should be the lowest point in the fuel system, away from exhaust and in an area that makes pre-flight examination easy and clean.  The engine mount is a complicated crisscross of tubing in the lower fire wall. Factors that I wanted to accomplish were:
1.    Firewall penetration with bulkhead fitting.
2.    Mount gascolator mid-fuselage .
3.    Use steel fittings firewall forward.

    
Out of a single piece of .040 2024T3, I made an angled bracket that leveled the angled firewall and bridged the transverse engine mount tube.  To better fortify the mount, I fashoned a side bracket that is held with an3 bolts and nutplates.  The gascolator in an Andair type from van's.

    
The finished product has an .080 doubler, bulkhead firewall penetration, all steel fittings and high-pressure, fire-sleeved hoses and "scat" tubing for cool air from the rear baffle. 
You can see how busy the area can be, limited space and a few systems that need to live there.

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