had a leak in my gascolator last week.. so I unbuttoned top and bottom cowl and got two new gaskets for the bowl. a couple of airport gawkers walked by and were horified by the glass bowl on my gascolator.. citing several instances where the glass broke in flight and resulted in immediate landings and or worse...Called Maule and Brian said Gurdy made the early Maule gascolators but that they are now obsolete and that Gurdy made the glass ones for about 5 years and then switched to aluminum bowls as everyone kept dropping them. the glass is about a quarter inch thick but it's still glass and I started looking for a aluminum replacement as opposed to buying a new gascolator..not much luck so Brian said to try the Maule owners site and I also figured I'd try BCP... so if anyone out there has an old Gurdy Gascolator or even the aluminum bowl I'd love to relieve you of it...

Quit messin' around with junk-

http://www.stevesaircraft.com/gascolator.php

You beat me to it.

Gump

SixTwoLeemer wrote:Quit messin' around with junk-

http://www.stevesaircraft.com/gascolator.php

Really Butch??? You didn't know about Steve's? he's been around here a time or two

Think Steve's Aircraft has a replacement gascolator for your maule. I put one of their gascolators on my luscombe to replace the glass one; it is very nice and robust and I recommend them.

Thanks for the replies guys....

I still get surprised that some people do not know about our replacement gascolators..

Iceman... Call me in the morning... I have two models certified on the Maule, one of them will replace that old Gurdy...


Brian

You won't be disappointed, very well made!

yeah it was an "oh shit" moment... sort of like, I could have had a V8...looks like I need the SA-3-10c... is there a screen in it... screen in the old glass one seems to be working quite well...I;ll call tomorrow...thing about the old Gurdy is it can't be safetied... has a allen screw on the bottom that tightens the bottom up against the glass... which sits between two gaskets which i replaced... the damn thing has been in there since 1966 but I guess everything is good until it breaks and if the glass breaks......

Old people shit next he'll be askin about depends

I switched to a Steve's several years ago. Like so many STC'd parts, my P172D wasn't on their AML list, but they graciously had it put on there so that I wouldn't have to go through the field approval crappola--easier for them than for me, I guess. Anyhow, that's top notch service, and the thing is very well made and works like it should--and oh so much safer than a glass full of LL sitting right there only a few inches from all that heat!

Cary

Glidergeek wrote:Old people shit next he'll be askin about depends

say what??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone ever had a glass gascolator bowl break, other than by dropping it on the hangar floor? No offense to Steve's, I'm sure they have a fine product, but I don't have any problem (real or imagined) with the glass bowl on my gascolator.

iceman wrote:yeah it was an "oh shit" moment... sort of like, I could have had a V8...looks like I need the SA-3-10c... is there a screen in it... screen in the old glass one seems to be working quite well...I;ll call tomorrow...thing about the old Gurdy is it can't be safetied... has a allen screw on the bottom that tightens the bottom up against the glass... which sits between two gaskets which i replaced... the damn thing has been in there since 1966 but I guess everything is good until it breaks and if the glass breaks......

If you have 1/2 inch fuel lines then that is the one for your application.
The screen is located in the head and is stainless steel 100 X 100 US mess. 149 micron if you go by microns.

hotrod150 wrote:Has anyone ever had a glass gascolator bowl break, other than by dropping it on the hangar floor? No offense to Steve's, I'm sure they have a fine product, but I don't have any problem (real or imagined) with the glass bowl on my gascolator.

I have had several orders because of enough water acumilation then freezing and breaking the glass.... Also from dropped bowls... It happens...

Brian.

I guess there'd be some justification for glass if you could see the darned thing during preflight, but in most airplanes it's pretty hidden until you take the lower cowl off. It's interesting to me that an airplane can be certified with a glass bowl in the engine compartment for its fuel strainer, but the USCG prohibits a glass bowl in the engine compartment for the fuel strainer of an inboard boat. It seems to me that the USCG's logic makes sense; the FAA's doesn't--the kaboom factor is certainly similar. In any event, I'm glad I replaced my stock glass one, which was still fine and hadn't broken in some 45 years, with the Steve's aluminum one--just one less thing to worry about.

Cary

well I ordered one today and it'll be in the mail tomorrow thanks to Brian... The gascolator is covered by a box completely which is attached to the firewall on mine... so I can't see the bowl without cowling removal and removing 10 screws and the box anyway... yeah you like to see in the bowl but if I have to remove all that shit just to see the gascolator one more thing to unscrew on the new gascolator won't matter...anyone want to buy a old Gurdy gascolator.. working when removed...

hotrod150 wrote:Has anyone ever had a glass gascolator bowl break, other than by dropping it on the hangar floor? No offense to Steve's, I'm sure they have a fine product, but I don't have any problem (real or imagined) with the glass bowl on my gascolator.

I replaced mine because the ends of the glass were chipped and leaked. I could get it to stop leaking by (what felt to me) over torquing. I always thought that bail system looked like it was off some tractor and could imagine what would would happen if it broke from over tightening.
Steve's gascolator is about the same price as it would have been to replace just the glass piece and is much better overall.

as a matter of fact I do know of a gascolator failure incident.. actually it was told to me by Wup yesterday on the phone... two maule owners flew into fish lake, i think it was, in Idaho and on landing one of them noticed gas leaking and determined it was a cracked bowl.. the other Maule flew them both out to get repair items and on the return trip the second Maules gascolator failed... some coincidence...it's all a mute point now anyway since I'll be replacing the old one..and I went to cessna parts here on Gillespie field for a new Aluminum replacement for just the glass....$323.00 bucks....

I'm another 'Steves' convert. I switched when my OEM gascolator developed a slight leak.

There have been alot of planes crash up here that the pilot survided the crash, but burned up in the post crash fire. It has been said that most of those incidents involved the glass bowl on the gascolator breaking and dumping the gas on the hot exhaust which started the fire. May be true, may not be, but I have never been willing to take the chance. I drain the bowl before every flight so it does not matter if I can see water in it or not, it gets flushed before I take off every day!

akavidflyer wrote:There have been alot of planes crash up here that the pilot survided the crash, but burned up in the post crash fire. It has been said that most of those incidents involved the glass bowl on the gascolator breaking and dumping the gas on the hot exhaust which started the fire. May be true, may not be, but I have never been willing to take the chance. I drain the bowl before every flight so it does not matter if I can see water in it or not, it gets flushed before I take off every day!

Try putting your glass bowl through this....





Cub was rebuilt... replaced the bowl with a new one, the cover was fine. It now resides in New York.

Thanks to everyone else for your comments... It is apreciated by Dad and I.... Always good to here positive reviews of our products....

Brian.