TerryH wrote:
canadian oddy wrote:
That's not what I would do.
CO
You feel it's ok as is or do you have another idea of something different?
Bear with me here on my stories please:
1) I have been on fire in my race car. It's not a good feeling. The race cars all have electric fuel pumps. The fitting on the carb broke and the pump kept pumping fuel. The corner crew put me out.
2) I have been in a HUGE crash in my oddy that got me a free helicopter ride to a trauma center in the big city a hundred miles away. I broke my back (crushed L1).
I hit a washout at very nearly top speed of an oddy. My guess is 50+ mph. When I hit the hole the oddy went straight up like a missile, rolled over in the air and I came down on the roof. The impact was so great the sparkplug lead came off and the
Engine died all on it's own. I cart wheeled down the road and then rolled down an embankment and got hung up in some trees. The oddy was upside down. I undid my belts and fell out of the oddy.
Now here is the key part: The Engine was off but fuel was leaking out the tank through the fuel cap and dripping on the ground right where I was laying. I was actually watching it come out LOL. I could smell the fuel but I had nothing else to do anyways. Did spend some time killing deer flies and ants that were biting me though.
What I am saying is that in a big crash if you are upside down in an oddy fuel is gona leak out the tank anyways. With and electric pump fuel is only gona leak out if you brake a fuel line.
I am NO electron mechanic. I hate electrical. All I know about it is that if you give it the lick test you're gona end up on your azz. Having said this I still want to comment.
I don't think there is an electrical switch that will work in this situation. On rough terrain the tilt switch will constantly be cutting in/out and the pump motur is probably not going to like that very much, but I could be wrong. All new vehicles have and electrical cut out when you get into a head on crash but it must be reset manually. Not sure if this is an option here.
In my opinion I would put a check valve in the pressure side of the fuel line that goes to the carb and when the machine is upside down it just checks the fuel and dead heads the pump.
But remember #2 above.
CO
Edit: When I get those three electric pumps for my machines I am just gona go with it. If I crash that hard again I hope I am dead.
CO