| With the control arm on the Ram air fixed, it's time to move on to connecting the canister with the cowl ring. I finally settled on |
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| using the neoprene that came with the James cowl. Aftre measureing the distance ebtween the induction ring and the canister. I |
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| cut a strip of neoprene, and using the Aquaseal glue that was supplied, I clued a cylinder just slightly unbdersized from the ring |
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| diamenter, I used a expansion clamp to secure it to the cowl ring, then folded it insdie the ring and mounted the cowl. After the |
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| cowl was mounted it was pretty easy to unfold the neoprene ring anount the canister valve. I remounted the plenum, and then |
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| made neoprene cylinders for each on the inlet rings, and attached them to the plenum in the same way as the induction ring. |
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| Gluing the neoprene is pretty straight forward and the glue seems to be very strong. I need to pick up a slightly larger expansion |
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| clamp to finish off the pilot side. I noticed that I had some interferrance with the prop governor control and the plenum side, |
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| which prevented the control from reaching the stop, when the prop control was pulled all the way out. I replaces several of the |
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| washers with thin washers and it seems to have done the trick. I also worked a bit more on the exhaust hanger brackets, I found |
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| I has some 'narrow' #10 nutplates that I could mount to the bracket, and then I can use an AN4-4A bolt to hold the hanger strap. |
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| Finished one, do the other one tomorrow. |
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