8 hours.<\/p>\n
A full day full of fiddly things. \u00a0 And a cleaning. \u00a0 The biggest thing today was moving the purge valve and alt air cables out of the way of the stick travel. \u00a0I was able to do \u00a0this by detaching the bracket from the underside of the panel, rotating it 90 degrees and attaching it to the throttle quadrant. \u00a0 It’s not pretty, and I should come up with some kind of cover, but it will do for now.<\/p>\n
I also put jam nuts on the forward elevator pushrod. \u00a0This was a chore. \u00a0Big fingers, small spaces, washers in between slices of metal.. you know the drill.<\/p>\n
I fiddled around with the OAT probe wiring again.. Matt at MGL gave me a new one, but it doesn’t work either. \u00a0 The EFIS comes out and goes to MGL again. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I’m glad I checked the elevators again.. Apparently I never put nuts on the hinge bearings last time I was fiddling around with rigging them. \u00a0 This is now fixed. \u00a0 I also cleaned up the plane and the shop, putting all the extraneous hardware and tools away, getting ready to make a fresh mess.<\/p>\n
I still need to secure the cabin heat SCAT tube, but I did get my heat shields installed. \u00a0 Then I began having all kinds of fun with the left side canopy strut mount. \u00a0 One of the the screws is loose and it’s nearly impossible to get any kind of wrench in there to tighten it down, since it’s under the longeron. \u00a0 Sucks.<\/p>\n
This kind of stuff shouldn’t take 8 hours, but the awkwardness and inaccessibility of the stuff in question made it so. \u00a0 I can’t wait to get back to straightforward stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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