Next up in front of the firewall are the engine mount brackets. These are big heavy lumps of aluminium that sit on rubber barry mounts that act as shock absorbers for the engine. They come undrilled of course because to…
Category: Engine
Radiator Expansion Bottle (2h)
Beautiful day for flying out here in the Valley today, mid-80s, calm winds, clear and a million. But I am stuck on the ground until I can get (at least most) of the pieces on the hangar floor attached to…
Throttle Bellcrank (1h 30m)
I knew I wouldn’t be up for drilling into the windshield so back to the firewall side of things and putting a few things on before the engine comes out of the crate. The throttle bellcrank goes across the firewall…
Elevator Controls Rigging (3 hr)
Today Allen came over to help finish the elevator control cables. With the elevator in neutral (and during the rigging we made the elevator more neutral than I had made it previously), the control cables are properly rigged when the…
Engine Mount (3h 30)
The rigging of the wings has stalled (yes, sometimes they write themselves) while I hope to get loan of some wing stands which will greatly help the process. It is certainly possible to do them without but it would be…