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…
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…
Wiring Planning
Something else I did last weekend is make a sketch of my electrical components so that I could start to gather information on wire sizes, lengths, connections etc. Hopefully I can flesh it out over the Christmas break.
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…
Engine Install – Muffler and Oil Cooler System (3 hr)
For a while there was a plan, a hope, a fantasy(!) that the plane would be done in time for my 50th birthday. Alas, that happened on Monday and as you might guess from previous updates I didn’t make it…