October 9, 2005

I ordered some fittings from Spruce a while ago, and I thought I’d ordered the wrong size, so I ordered some more. The new ones hadn’t arrived yet, so I figured that I wouldn’t get to doing what I did today. Well, it turns out the original order I made was correct! Duh! So, I put these 45 degree AN fittings on the fuel sensors, and it made things a lot better. I had to put the fuel distribution block back to where it was originally, as even with a 45 degree fitting, the cable was still close to where the baffles would be.

The other nice thing about putting 45’s in there was that I could angle the sensors down a tad to make sure that they would be clear of the cowl. I’m not quite sure how close they will be, but more clearance is better in my opinion.

This has given me about an inch and a half of extra cable to work with for routing down to the manifold pressure and temperature sensors. It has also relieved the stress that the harness was under trying to stretch between the sensors. Once the baffles are done, we’ll be able to fit the harness permanently.