Nice design, Mr. Piper. Beech Bonanza you take off the access port on the
top of the wing to expose the top of the bladder where sender is located.
Remove 6 or 8 more screws and sender comes out. No need for tank to be
empty, down 5-10 gallons helpful. Sender out in 5 minutes.

Agreed. Making the sending unit inaccessible without removing the tank is
crazy. But it's just another goofy thing in aviation, non-specific to Piper
products. I suspect every owner can tell a maintenance story about
"stupid-design-induced-headaches" on their brand of airplane.

Thankfully, the sending units on our tip tanks are much easier to work on,
should that ever become necessary.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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