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[GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153584] Mon, 19 December 2011 18:39 Go to next message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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Yesterday I finally got around to installing the 1/2" SS covered fuel line
Stick gave me to replace the old hard-enough-to-drive-nails fuel burp tube
beneath the driver's seat. Since that required removing the entire wheel
well liner, I decided to make the photos of the EFI Fuel Accumulator which
I neglected during installation.

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=3316

http://goo.gl/KtruF


Ken H.
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Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153624 is a reply to message #153584] Mon, 19 December 2011 21:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Looks like it will survive WWIII !

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Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153668 is a reply to message #153584] Tue, 20 December 2011 03:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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what fun,
great pictures

did you make the accumulator?

gene



On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Ken Henderson <hend4800@bellsouth.net>wrote:

> Yesterday I finally got around to installing the 1/2" SS covered fuel line
> Stick gave me to replace the old hard-enough-to-drive-nails fuel burp tube
> beneath the driver's seat. Since that required removing the entire wheel
> well liner, I decided to make the photos of the EFI Fuel Accumulator which
> I neglected during installation.
>
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=3316
>
> http://goo.gl/KtruF
>
>
> Ken H.
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Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153672 is a reply to message #153668] Tue, 20 December 2011 04:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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I made the pieces; "my" welder put it together.

Ken H.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:11 AM, gene Fisher wrote:

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> did you make the accumulator?
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Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153692 is a reply to message #153584] Tue, 20 December 2011 08:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ken Henderson wrote on Mon, 19 December 2011 19:39

Yesterday I finally got around to installing the 1/2" SS covered fuel line Stick gave me to replace the old hard-enough-to-drive-nails fuel burp tube beneath the driver's seat. Since that required removing the entire wheel well liner, I decided to make the photos of the EFI Fuel Accumulator which I neglected during installation.

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=3316

http://goo.gl/KtruF

Ken H.

Ken,

Where does the tank "vent" line go??
And
Just a little nomenclature issue here.
What you have is not actually an accumulator. An accumulator is a pressurized storage.

What you have will be called a self-leveling day tank as a delivery pump keeps the tank at a level determined by over-flow or active control and the service pump then draws from that tank.
It is a common arrangement in the marine engine world.

Matt


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Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153708 is a reply to message #153692] Tue, 20 December 2011 09:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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Matt,

:-) I sort of agree with your nomenclature argument. And sort of don't.
Granted, a hydraulic accumulator stores pressurized liquid. But then a
computer's accumulator is a place to store bits temporarily, not
necessarily pressurized. And an electrical capacitor is sometimes called
an accumulator since it stores electrons -- though it does require
"pressure" to keep 'em in there. With all those definitions, I kind of
figure using the term for the place I keep my about-to-be used gasoline
(which IS under pressure, by the way) is better than calling it a "surge
tank". I ain't about to waste all them letters & confuse everybody but you
by calling it a "self-leveling day tank". :-)

Sorry, just suffer along with me. Kosier don't even like my spelling
sometimes. :-)

Oh yeah, the tank vent line goes, hard line all the way, through a skid
guard beneath the #5 cross member, to the Aux tank drain.

Ken H.


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Matt Colie wrote:

>
> Where does the tank "vent" line go??
> And
> Just a little nomenclature issue here.
> What you have is not actually an accumulator. An accumulator is a
> pressurized storage.
>
> What you have will be called a self-leveling day tank as a delivery pump
> keeps the tank at a level determined by over-flow or active control and the
> service pump then draws from that tank.
> It is a common arrangement in the marine engine world.
>
>
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Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153764 is a reply to message #153708] Tue, 20 December 2011 16:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hal kading is currently offline  hal kading   United States
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Per Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Definition of ACCUMULATOR
: one that accumulates: as a : a device (as in a hydraulic system) in which a fluid is collected and especially in which it is kept under pressure as a means of storing energy b British : storage battery c : a part (as in a computer) where numbers are totaled or stored


Sounds to me that Ken has an accumulator.

Hal Kading 78 Buskirk (with efi fuel accumulator) Las Cruces NM
Re: [GMCnet] EFI Accumulator [message #153793 is a reply to message #153708] Tue, 20 December 2011 18:56 Go to previous message
USAussie is currently offline  USAussie   United States
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G'day,

Reminds me of the old song line "you say po tA toe I say po ta toe." ;-)

Regards,
Rob M.

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From: Ken Henderson

Matt,

:-) I sort of agree with your nomenclature argument. And sort of don't.
Granted, a hydraulic accumulator stores pressurized liquid. But then a
computer's accumulator is a place to store bits temporarily, not
necessarily pressurized. And an electrical capacitor is sometimes called
an accumulator since it stores electrons -- though it does require
"pressure" to keep 'em in there. With all those definitions, I kind of
figure using the term for the place I keep my about-to-be used gasoline
(which IS under pressure, by the way) is better than calling it a "surge
tank". I ain't about to waste all them letters & confuse everybody but you
by calling it a "self-leveling day tank". :-)

Sorry, just suffer along with me. Kosier don't even like my spelling
sometimes. :-)

Oh yeah, the tank vent line goes, hard line all the way, through a skid
guard beneath the #5 cross member, to the Aux tank drain.

Ken H.


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