Lights and wingtips and stuff

Did lots of miscellaneous things. We had company over so this prompted me to tackle little easy projects.

- Installed nutplates on the firewall for the GPS antenna bracket, primed and then mounted the antenna/bracket.



- Installed the cotter pin in the nosewheel.

- Installed cabin heat cable and attached to selector.

- Ran cable for the carb heat.

- Tightened ELT antenna

- Safety wired the flap motor and ran it a couple of times.

- Installed the position lights in the wing tips and installed one of the lenses. I scratched the other lense when I was working on it so I'm ordering a replacement. I need to borrow a 1/2" drill from my neighbor so I can drill holes for the strobe lights.







(Time: 8 hrs)

Nutplates for emp fairing

Got tied up watching Roush Driving: Racer X on Discovery Channel so I didn't get out to shop until 8 and looked for something easy to do.

I installed then nutplates on the vertical stab and horizontal stab for the empennage fairing. I also drilled a few holes in the firewall for the GPS tray but can't finish until I take the top skin back off.

(Time: 1.5 hrs)

Misc. firewall stuff

Trying to finish up stuff on the firewall before I hang the engine... access is good now, it won't be once engine is on.

Put the diodes on the contactors.



Installed a nutplate on one of the vertical firewall supports for an adel clamp, I think this will hold the engine vent tube line.



Installed one of two nutplates in the firewall recess that the tunnel cover attaches too. I broke the nail on my pop rivet dimpler, so only got one done.



(Time: 1.5 hrs)