Internal/external fuel tank?
Internal/external fuel tank?
My Dragonfly 800 MkII has an gas cap but according to the previous owner no internal fuel tank is connected, hence I have an external tank by the rudder on the stern.
Does anyone know the reason for the missing tank, and if it's possible acceass that space to add a new one?
Does anyone know the reason for the missing tank, and if it's possible acceass that space to add a new one?
Location?
Where is the gas cap?
A fixed gas tank is not standard in a DF800
If you want to know where it goes, it is just to follow the tube and try to figure out if there is a space for a tank in the end - but there are very few free spaces in a DF800.
A fixed gas tank is not standard in a DF800
If you want to know where it goes, it is just to follow the tube and try to figure out if there is a space for a tank in the end - but there are very few free spaces in a DF800.
Smell of gas
There is no solid wall between locker and cabin. If the tank leeks gas you will smell it in cabin.
The problem is sun and day/night temperature - I think. The volume in the tank changes with temperature and sometimes small amount of gas leeks out - that was the problem I had with my previous tank.
Maybe it is a good idea to connect a gas cap on the outside. Like someone did on your boat. Why not on the transom - or on the side of the swim platform. (I don't swim from that place) Then the gas leakage would go out in the air.
I got two holes in the transom - one for power to the autohelm and one for the fuel hose to the motor. Have to think before I make another one.
The problem is sun and day/night temperature - I think. The volume in the tank changes with temperature and sometimes small amount of gas leeks out - that was the problem I had with my previous tank.
Maybe it is a good idea to connect a gas cap on the outside. Like someone did on your boat. Why not on the transom - or on the side of the swim platform. (I don't swim from that place) Then the gas leakage would go out in the air.
I got two holes in the transom - one for power to the autohelm and one for the fuel hose to the motor. Have to think before I make another one.