Add left Wing Tank?

[MontanaT-craft]

Can anyone give me information and guidelines for adding a wing tank in a covered left wing? I would like to accomplish this in the most efficient way with the least down time, so I need to know what to expect before the work begins. I do have an aluminum tank to install. I would appreciate any advice that you can give me.
Thanks,
Charles

[Robert Lees]

Re: Add left Wing Tank?

Hello Charles, and welcome to the Forum.

I had a problem a few years ago that required the removal of the right tank and replacement with another one.

My blog for this is here, if that is any help?

Rob

[Pearson]

Re: Add left Wing Tank?

If you go to this page http://taylorcraft.org/resources.html#337_STC_data and scroll down to "WINGS", there may be some info there you can use. Also I can tell you from experience, the problem I had was turning the little nuts near the ends of the drag wires. I ended up fabricating my own spoke wrench. If you want to minimize down time, you want to have the correct wrench beforehand. I used a piece of 3/16" plate steel to make a triangular shaped wrench. Using a regular wrench takes up so much room that you can't get very much of a turn on the nut. Or you could try to find the correct size spoke wrench at a bike shop. I couldn't find any nearby at the time I did mine.

[MontanaT-craft]

Re: Add left Wing Tank?

Thanks guys! That has been very helpful.
Charles

[TimHicks]

Re: Add left Wing Tank?

I used a bicycle spoke wrench that I had laying around my house. This wrench works with 8 different size spokes.
For my drag/antidrag wires, I found that 10-gauge (or whatever the 10 on the wrench means) was the right size for my prewar (13 -rib, built-up rib) wings