Analysis of real life 109E performance for CloD

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by Crumpp

Bad idea in an airplane....

I have experienced a cut oil return line (low pressure thankfully) and had a hole in the intake manifold cut by braided stainless steel lines.

I got rid of every one. Braided stainless steel and airplane engines do not mix very well.

Nor Harleys!

Last year out for a ride I noticed my gas consumption radically increasing, plus my left leg suddenly feeling very cold. Pulled over and found 94 octane gas sprinkling down from under the gas tank and sizzling on the hot air-cooled V-Twin underneath. Fortunately closing the fuel petcock stopped the flow, but the nifty s/s braiding had worn through the fuel line it was covering leading to the carb. Loosened two hose clamps and one of my buds made a quick trip with the braided line to a nearby Canadian Tire for a plain rubber counterpart. The fix was quick, easy, and cheap in this case, but can't imagine the huge danger this would've been in an aircraft!

[5./JG27.Farber]

Same thing happened to me, fuel line split, half a tank rolled straight down one of the steepest hills in sheffield at night. I thought about lighting it to burn it off but decided that would be worse than gushing nine letres of Petrol down the hill... Unfortunatley the Kawasaki er5 doesnt have a stop on the fuel cock. -Only res and on!

They were not braided... I suppose better visual inspection is the lesson here... I also had to push all 100kilos of it up the rest of the hill with the aid of my drunken cousin who insisted the bike had to be straight instead of leaning slightly my way, so it was twice as hard and took twice as long...