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Title: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: kwiatkma on May 19, 2008, 06:55:32 PM
OK so I need some help Identifying a fuel cap in my Long-EZ that I'm restoring.  The caps either need to replaced or need to find another cap that will fit in the receptacle.  They use a one piece rubber grommet that gets expanded when the lift tab is depressed.  Any case the pictures tell the story better than I can...The outer ring size is 3" while the inner ring size is around 2 5/8". HELP!

http://lisasimpson.homelinux.com/gallery2/v/defiant/indy_long/fuel_cap/


(http://lisasimpson.homelinux.com/gallery2/d/5285-2/Fuel+Cap+007.jpg)
(http://lisasimpson.homelinux.com/gallery2/d/5273-2/Fuel+Cap+003.jpg)
Title: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: Waiter on May 19, 2008, 07:10:55 PM
They look like the same ones I have. I got mine from Aircrsft Spruce.

Waiter
Title: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: kwiatkma on May 19, 2008, 07:15:11 PM
Waiter,

I just ordered (and Received the Usher fuel caps) from Aircraft  Spruce and they aren't those..... which model do you think it is?  I don't want to keep ordering and returning fuel caps to Aircraft Spruce!
To be more specific I thought they were model: UD-3 Usher cap.
Title: Re: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: Kilo42 on June 18, 2008, 07:36:37 AM
I have the same fuel caps.  I have tried to find their type with no luck.  Any help from the forum would be appreciated.

Thanks

Kilo42
N81HM 
Title: Re: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: Waiter on June 18, 2008, 10:52:27 AM
Aircraft Spruce # 10450-1. I use the same one on my LongEZ. Gaskets are #10449

Call them. When I checked their web site, the cap part number wasnt listed, but the gasket # looks oK.

The new gasket # is 05-01393, runs about $9

Waiter
Title: Re: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: djrise on June 18, 2008, 03:32:05 PM
try part number 05-01391 ACS new style fuel fuel cap In january of 2007 cost was $34.30 each.
Title: Re: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: djrise on June 18, 2008, 03:45:50 PM
One more note. If your caps with the gasket you show in your picture are ever exposed to auto gas they will swell and you will have a heck of a time getting them back in the filler hole. the new caps use a expandable viton O ring. NO PROBLEM
Title: Re: Help me identify this fuel cap
Post by: kwiatkma on June 19, 2008, 12:03:49 PM
DJRISE,

THANK YOU SO MUCH...I think that's it!