Month: January 2017

Some Random Things

Lots of little things to take care of….. first up, I had ordered the missing washer thingie from the throttle attachment and it had arrived. This little thing cost $15!!! Aviation, is all I can say. and you know I’m…

Almost Finished With the Cowl

I got sick during the week but decided not to let that stop me from taking a day off to work some more on the cowl. The winds that morning were savage, 25 mph straight out of the north and…

I Gotta Have More Cowling

It is too hard to move the two halves of the cowling around the engine to get the proper placement so the obvious thing to do was to join the two on the bench and drill pilot holes for clecoes.…

Cowling Part 1

In anticipation of the cowling work I re-attached the top skin and put the spinner on Despite reading the instructions several times I had not noticed that the cowling has to be trimmed so the first time it was on…

Engines and Arm Rests

Today I wanted to check the oil pressure and fuel flow gauges since that is pretty much the only thing left holding up the first engine start. Scott joined in today, always fun to have him in the hangar, not…