I had set myself the goal of having panel first light up over Thanksgiving so I needed to get the battery to hook it up to. My plan is to get the avionics electrical side all working and then understand…
Category: Engine
More Wrapping and the Propellor
Today I took a quick look at the angle of the wings and the flaperons at straight flight and there is definitely some adjustment needed. I will set that aside for when Allen returns next month. During the week I…
Brake Lines I
Allen and I were joined by his son Scott again today and we took a stab at the brakes. After some examination, we got to work installing the fittings into the brake master cylinders and parking brake. The parking brake…
Engine Install – Firewall Forward
I hope, dear reader, you had a very merry Christmas and that 2016 brings all manner of good things your way. For my part, I had the entire time off between Christmas and New Year so you might think I…
Engine Install – Radiator and Fuel System (3 hr)
First thing today was to determine what was wrong with the radiator brackets and it didn’t take Allen 15 seconds to point out that I had put the radiator on backwards. The radiator doesn’t have a right way up, but…