Oil Cooler, Oil Lines, and Some Riveting
TLDR Fitted the oil cooler Started to place oil lines Riveted the rear fuselage parachute box Details I started to work on the oil system today. First things first, I wanted to install ...
TLDR Fitted the oil cooler Started to place oil lines Riveted the rear fuselage parachute box Details I started to work on the oil system today. First things first, I wanted to install ...
TLDR Fitted the intercooler Details To fit the intercooler, a bunch of Rotax parts needs to come off the engine and be modified. Preparing Before starting, I cut 2 cardboards and placed th...
TLDR Put together the air filter Details The air filter lives right next to the intercooler. I decided to assemble it as a small task before the day ends. The steps are pretty straight forw...
TLDR Installed the 2 inspection doors on cowling Installed 2 bottom camlocs Installed the top cowling louver Details Throughout the build, I was frustrated on many steps: fuel tank, wiri...
TLDR Built a mobile app called Hopply for managing aircraft maintenance, squawks, and inspection dues Runs on both Android and iOS Still a work in progress, but I’ve been using it for my Sl...
TLDR Installed camlocs Started to fit inspection doors Details Camlocs Tools: Snap ring tool Camloc pliers Countersink bit and 3.2mm countersink rivets. I match drilled the caml...
TLDR Installed coolant radiator Installed coolant lines Received EAA Tech Counselor visit Details The main goal today was to install the coolant lines. It ended up being a super long day...
TLDR Installed camlocs Details From yesterday’s work, I decided to install all camlocs around the firewall stiffener so I can get the finalized location for coolant radiators, so today I put...
TLDR Installed the oil pressure sensor line Started to fit coolant fluid lines Details Pressure Sensor Line On the oil sensor, there is a line going into the airbox. This is used to measu...
TLDR Worked on a lot of misc tasks on the firwall forward section: Counter-sunk all camloc socket mounting points Added more heatshield on firewall Organized wires Installed fuel lines o...