Thread: Is it worthwhile to have a fuel pressure gauge or just set it and forget?
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Old 08-11-2003, 02:32 PM
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Dash mounted fuel pressure gauges are nice but make sure you have an isolator so you do not have gas running into the cockpit. I also have found them to be a bit tricky and hard to bleed. Best is to put a non-liquid filled gauge on your fuel log or regulator.

I recently (yesterday) had a problem where I was pumping anywhere from 6 to 15+ pounds of fuel into the carb. The carb was flooding and gas was coming out of every orifice on the carb. Turned out there was a round 1/4" burr inside my pressure regulator that got stuck in the ball check valve. I noticed the fuel pressure going nuts so that was where I looked for the problem.

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