10th
June
2011
Bouncing around
Hours: 10.4 | Posted in Cowling & Baffles, Electrical, EngineNow that work has settled down for the summer (127 hours in the last two weeks…), I’m trying to get back into the swing of working in the shop. Took the day off work and bounced around on a few little things…
- Finished drilling the hinges to the cowling and clecoed in place; test-fit the cowl and spinner backplate.
- Fabricated a mounting tray for the AFS magnetometers, one bulkhead behind the baggage wall. Installed the D-sub connectors and tested that the EFIS was talking to the magnetometer, which it was. Clecoed everything in place for now; will need to rivet the tray in place, and pick up some brass screws for mounting the sensor itself.
- Temporarily put in the lower spark plugs and attached the plug wires, so I could see where clearance would be needed in order to…
- Drilled and installed the EGT probes to the exhaust pipes. Fit the mufflers to the crossover pipes and held them up with bungees for now.
- Removed the too-short mixture cable and replaced it with the new, longer one (48″) that arrived. Fabricated a new bracket to secure the cabin ends of the control cables, and adjusted the linkages for proper throw on the quadrant and the fuel servo.
- Started work on the rear left engine baffle where the oil cooler attaches. Fabricated a reinforcing angle for the baffle corner to avert vibration cracking, and a thicker doubler plate for the cooler itself. Once the cooler was located on the baffle, trimmed away a portion of the aft flange on the cooler to provide clearance from the engine mount tube.
- Remade the fuel pump mount piece to accommodate the new version of the Andair fuel pump, which mounts a bit differently due to the now-integrated controller design. The new mount is actually simpler; the overall pump length appears to be the same, so no adjustment of fuel lines will be needed.
