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Intercom Harness Wiring – Part 1
Laid out aft cockpit panels on front formers and marked hole locations. Cut out mounting and component holes in formers, deburred, and riveted plates to fuselage. Measured out length of pilot side headset harnesses and cut three-wire shielded cable to length. Soldered harness onto headphone jack and used heat shrink to protect solder joints on…
Transponder/ADS-B Harness Wiring
Removed RH side panel cover and finished wiring all circuit breakers and power feeds. Installed power outlet on RH side of panel. Left feed wires for autopilot and aux power panel for now. Installed pre-fabricated transponder and ADS-B harnesses and routed them on RH side of fuselage. Removed flip flop and squat switch wires from…
Radio Harness Wiring
Completed wiring harness for the SV-COM-T25 starting at the com radio side. Began harnesses for SV-COM panel and the SV-INTERCOM as well. Will finish populating other harness later. Hours Worked: 2.80
Engine Sensor Installation
Installed rubber baffle material onto oil cooler duct. Installed EGT and CHT sensors onto engine and completed FWF wiring harness routing (other than oil pan heater). Verified temp probe operation with SkyView system then secured wires and routing in engine compartment. Secured throttle and mixture cables to engine mount using Adel clamps and started mapping…
Engine Baffles – Part 2
Installed rubber baffle sections onto engine cylinder baffles with AAP rivets. Test fit baffles back onto engine and checked clearances. Installed spark plug wire grommets onto spark plug harnesses. Hours Worked: 2.27
Cowl Fitment – Part 5
Continued to trim upper cowl to reach alignment with lower cowl. Removed lower cowl to clearance prop opening a little more. Used the bandfile belt sander for the last few passes which resulted in a slightly cleaner edge on the backside of the upper cowl. Once fit was close, reinstalled prop alignment hub and secured…
Cowl Fitment – Part 4
Began fitting upper cowl by placing onto lower cowl and notating baffling interference. Trimmed front of baffles by about half an inch and rechecked clearances. Made the determination that tucking upper cowl under the windshield skirt will likely make removing the upper cowl difficult with prop in place. Began process of making a shelf for…
Fuselage Floor Avionics – Part 2
Fabricated transponder and com antenna cables from parts then installed into airframe. Secured cables to rear spar carry through with adhesive pads. Hours Worked: 1.85
Cowl Fitment – Part 3
Aligned the cowl into its final place then pilot drilled side hinges to cowl. Initially only pilot drilled a few holes due to space constraints. Pilot drilled a few holes in the bottom cowl hinge half by using flashlight method to locate holes through the fiberglass. Removed cowl and hinges from the airframe then finished…
Cowl Fitment – Part 2
Decided to solve oil cooler clearance issue by moving oil cooler up by about 5/8″. Removed oil cooler bracket from bottom of engine and remade bracket from 1.5″ x 1.5″ aluminum angle stock with shorter leg. Installed new bracket on bottom of engine with Loctite 242 then reinstalled oil cooler to new bracket. Reinstalled lower…
Cowl Fitment – Part 1
Began fitment of lower cowl by marking out locations for gear legs and fuel drain. Slid lower cowl into place and measured front face of cowl offset by approximately 1″. Trimmed back edges of cowl 1/2″ at a time while moving cutouts forward at the same time. Refit cowl and determined that proper forward alignment…
Fuselage Floor Avionics – Part 1
Clecoed forward fuselage floor back onto fuselage to start under seat component layout. Made riser mounts for ADSB, transponder, and com boxes so that nutplates could be used out of scrap aluminum. Riveted mounts to fuselage floor behind seat pan and bolted SV-COM-T25, SV-ADSB-472, and SV-XPNDR-261 units into place. Drilled holes for transponder and ADS-B…
