Ivan's RV-7

Working on the fuel sender plate.Timer icon1h

January 19, 2025

Finishing the right fuel tank.

Wrapping up the fuel tank construction. First, I made a new arm from a 3/32" music wire. It looks close enough to what the original arm was made from.

The new fuel sender arm.

Installing the fuel sender plate was relatively clean because I used NAS1473A08 sealed nutplates. This way, I only needed to seal a small area inside the screw holes, without the need to seal the screws themselves.

The sender plate screwed in.

To make the ground connection more reliable for the fuel sender, I added a terminal tab under one of the screws.

The ground terminal.

Initial tests with the balloon showed no major leaks!

The ballon holds the pressure!