6 hours.
My pre-molded intersection fairings arrived from Van’s this week, but of course I forgot to take them up to the hangar. The last major bit of fiberglassery is the landing gear stuff, so I tried to get started on that today. There’s a .063 plate that bolts on to the brake caliper and its job is to hold the two halves of the wheel pants together, on each wheel. I made them, cut all the spacers, and installed them, then took them off, anticipating that I could just put them back on as needed. But it’s impossible to access the bolt head on the inside of the brake caliper without taking the wheel off. I made two attempts to bend a 7/16 wrench 90 degrees at the open end, one resulting in a broken wrench, the other a wrench with too wide a bend to fit inside the rim and access the bolt.
So I figured taking the wheel off would be the best option. I searched the hangar in vain for a floor jack. Those guys don’t have one. The engine hoist I used before is down in the EAA hangar, but it was all locked up and I couldn’t get to it. So that was out.
I did get the plans and the manual out so I could begin working on cutting the leg fairings to fit. That didn’t take long, so I went up to the aviation department of O’Reilly Auto parts and picked up another tube of red RTV. I finished the front baffle bead and the left mag duct, and also isolated a couple of things from chafing via the RTV Blob method.
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