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Old Mar 23, 2021 | 03:33 PM
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Fuel volume through return lines

Searched quite a bit but does anyone know exactly how much fuel passes through the return system?

I've had a pretty serious fuel leak and I'm just wondering how much fuel/minute could actually leak if my return system was just dumping everything.

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Old Mar 23, 2021 | 03:43 PM
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It's about 1 gal a minute at idle, it's been years since I tested it.
 
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it's a good bit.... 400- 1000 CC/min nominal
 
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Old Mar 23, 2021 | 05:04 PM
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Good to know, looks like it flows plenty to account for how much I was seeing dumped
 
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