| After being tied up with the holidays and away from the project it was good to get back out today. The old exhaust hangers were |
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| adel clamps clamped to the engine mount. since I installed the faux firewall, there wasn't enough room for the rubber cushion on |
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| the adel clamp between the firewall and the motor mount, I got worried about the metal to metal contact and worried that there |
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| could/would be some wear on the engine mount. So I fabricated different exhaust hangers that attached to the firewall. While |
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| Patrick was here, I got him to help me mount the exhaust hangar brackets to the firewall. I had an extra piece of the high temp |
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| blue strap that John Forsling sent, but I found out it was a bit too short to allow for it to be mounted directly to the brackets. |
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| Sooooo, I fabricated some metal bracket/clips similar to the ones that John sent that attach to the exhaust. I didn't have any .032 |
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| stainless so I made them out of alum, since these are away from the extreme heat of the exhaust I think they will be OK. I had to |
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| pick up some longer rivets from Ace as the LP 4-3's were a bit too short. As things go one task turns into 2 or three. the co-pilot |
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| side went fine, but the pilot side hanger was interferring with the breather tube., I tried bending the breather tube, but in the end I |
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| only messed it up. I ended up removing the breather tube, and cutting it just above the pilot hangar bracket. I picked up some |
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| flexible tubing w 1" ID from ACE this evening and I think I should be able to clamp the flex tube to the alum breather and then |
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| route 6-8 " around the hanger and down to where the old tube exited. |
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