The work during this session was completed on Wednesday, January 2, 2019
The picture below shows the black Proseal I applied to Aft Baffle seams and Tank Attach Zees. I’ve said it before, this might be complete overkill, but I do not want the tank to leak.
After allowing the Proseal to dry over some of the Christmas Holiday, it’s now time to leak check another portion of the Right Fuel Tank. In Part 35, Jeff and I installed the Aft Baffle on the Right Fuel Tank (which is the focus of this leak check). As with the Left Tank, all leak checks will be completed with actual 100LL Avgas....after all, isn’t that what’s going in it?? So, I filled the Fuel Tank with 5 gallons (which is enough to cover the Aft Baffle seams and a few Skin rivets not previous leak checked). After the fuel was put in the Tank, I turned it “vertically” on the table. In the picture below, you can see the Tank Attach Zee’s resting on the pieces of 2 x 6’s.
Here is what it looks like “vertically” on the workbench. I used a strap over one of the Wing Ribs to “loosely” hold the tank on the workbench in case it was bumped. I also put cardboard down on the workbench to make it easier to spot any potential fuel leaks.
Here is the opposite side of the Tank. The fuel level inside the tank is roughly 1/4 the way up the fuel cap on the lower right side of the Fuel Tank.
And lastly, here is the inboard side of the Fuel Tank. I temporarily installed the orange hose onto the tank’s air vent to vent the tank while it was sitting on the workbench being leak checked.
This is the final leak check that needs to be completed on the Right Fuel Tank. If all checks out, the next step is to Akzo Prime the outside of the Tank prior to installing it on the Right Wing.