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Spent 6 hours chasing a fuel leak that turned out to be a loose clamp
I was working on a Cessna 172 last Wednesday and smelled fuel as soon as I opened the cowling. Took me a full afternoon to track it down because I kept looking at the fuel lines near the injector. Turned out to be a $2 clamp on the return line that had wiggled loose over time. Has anyone else had a simple fix take way longer than it should have just because you assumed the problem was somewhere else?
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troy99612h ago
Man that's brutal. Six hours for a loose clamp is the kind of thing that makes you wanna kick the tire and just walk away for a minute. At least now you know every inch of those fuel lines.
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