Back in fiberglass hell today, working on the cowl. Made good progress. Cut the piano hinges that hold the cowl on to the correct lengths. Then I made the pins that join the two halves of the piano hinges. Then I rough trimmed the bottom cowl and final trimmed the top cowl. The top cowl is ready to drill to the piano hinge tomorrow.
Alignment tool for the top cowl Lot's of sanding!
Safety wired bolts on the front spinner plate...looking at the picture I realized I safety wired them backwards. Going to need to fix that tomorrow!
Safety wired prop bolts
Finished the spinner backing plate Prop uncrated and ready to mount Removed the front crank plug. Wendy is cleaning out the excess oil Zak came over in the afternoon and helped me mount the prop onto the plane. Here he is torquing the bolts Prop mounted
Installed oil filler neck
The aft spinner plate needs to be match drilled and cut-out to match the doubler A bunch of hand filing and we've got a hole!
Deviated a bit from the plans and rolled my own solution for the manifold pressure line. Vans has you use a pre-made steel-braided AN hose for the manifold pressure. The hose is run to an elbow fitting connected to the manifold pressure sensor. I need to create a “T” off the manifold pressures sensor line to feed the PMag (Electronic Ignition). I ended up buying some AN Aeroquip fittings from Summit Racing along with some Aeroquip AQP steel-braided hose.
Wired the fuel flow sensor. The wires will be tied down and secured after the rest of the wires are run
Installed oil temp sensor and cap on tachometer drive gear. Installed fittings on fuel flow sensor Fuel injector servo unwrapped The lower sump was filled with preservation oil. This happens sometimes when the engine is shipped with the intake valves in the open position. The preservation oil drips out through the intake vales, down the intake tubes and into the lower sump.
Tonight I installed the prop governor.
Hartzell prop governor, brand new in the box Remove the cover plate off the engine Prop governor installed. You have to adjust the face plate so that the cable bracket is oriented correctly to the arm. The cable bracket cap screws are left loose, since the cable bracket has to be removed during baffle installation.