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Bruces Web Site
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Date: 9-12-2012
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Number of Hours: 4.50
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Manual Reference:
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Brief Description: Tubing, brake and fuel
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Completed brake lines. The two to the firewall are a piece of art! Did the first with a template of wire. Second was made off the first with the appropriate plus and minus to run 1.5" under the first and turn to the left when in the tunnel.
Fule lines. Intersting. I ordered the fuel pump and filter Monday afternoon, they showed up today at about 0900. Plumbed up the fuel valve and mounted it in the tunnel. Bent one of the two simple 90 degree lines from the tunnel to the valve. The dimension is given in the plans, which should make one nervous. It was not even close. Looked at it for quite a while and realized that the fuel valve was not clocked properly. Since there is only one way it can bolt to the mount, the mount must be wrong.
Checked where it is installed. Showed flanges up, but on the next page showed flanges down (the way I put it in). It shows up about 10 - 15 times on various pages, including the fuel line section. Seemed to be flange up about half the time, down the other half. So, drilled it out and turned it flanges up. A bit of a pain since it is dinpled and countersunk and the frame is very rigid where it mounts.
Now the clocking of the fuel valve was right, but the 10.5" (unbent) tube was still too short. Could micky bend it to fit, but instead measured and cut a 11.25" piece and bent it. Fit just right on both sides.
Mounted fuel pump, filter and a Flowscan that I had left over from my time as a Reno Crew chief. This section provides no dimensions (GOOD), so you just make the tube to fit. It should mention that you want the tube in and out of the flowscan to be as long as possible to get more better readings. Found this was very important when we were using an automotive fuel injection on the reno racer and had a fuel rail. Fuel ran at about 90 GPH all the time and fuel flow was determined by two flowmeters, the return flow subtracted from the supply. This doubles the error of each flowmeter.
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