During the week, I had a comment on the blog about whether the steel bungee strap rod has enough clearance in a hard landing not to hit the engine mount. I hadn’t even thought about this as a possibility so…
Category: Finishing
Brake Lines II
This post takes part over two different hangar trips interrupted by a business trip to London. First thing we did was take out all the brake line fittings we had so nicely tightened, apply the thread sealant and re-install. This…
Pilot Side Fuel Line
On studying the effort of the previous week Allen thought, and I agreed, that the 90 degree fitting on the seat channel put the fuel line too close and it would be better to use a straight bulkhead fitting and…
Arm Rests, Doors and Fuel lines
Another ‘several visits in one’ post. In order to get a proper look at the fuel line installation, we needed to get the windshield and nose skin off to get behind the firewall. Before doing this we got the latch…
Doors
While waiting for parts to come, we revisited the doors which just needed their rear latch pins installed. Allen showed up with what looked like a cheese grating board but it turned out to be an ingenious device for holding…