| A lot of hours for not much progress. Continuing to work on the electrical system. Objective, connect the control switches in the |
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| control sticks. !st task was to wire the pitch trim servo. Used Knuckols modified 9 pin dsub connectors held together w/ shrink |
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| wrap. Temp installed both grips cna contreol sticks as wel as the relay deck i received. I purchased some terminal blocks to |
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| make it easier to remove the sticks for maintenance and installed them using some supersized pop rivets. i had to temp install |
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| the centerconsole panel as it containes the trim LED indicators. wired everything up and NO Joy..... started the troubleshooting |
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| process and long story short, I found that one of the dsub pins on the connector to the trim servo had a bad crimp and no |
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| continuity through the wire to the relay deck. The good news is that the 'open' was on the end of the wire rather than in the |
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| middle buried under seat pans!!!! Reconnected everything to the relay deck and... It worked !!!... for a minute and then quit...??? |
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| .... Several hours of trouble shooting followed, the net result was I have a bad relay deck. Called this am and a new one is on its |
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| way. Meanwhile, I removed the Van's oil cooler and moved the AN fittings to the New Performance aero cooler, but before |
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| reinstalling the new oil cooler, i wanted to fill the 'holes' in the corners of the oil cooler mounting box. got out the beloved Proseal, |
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| put some backing duct tape over several of the corners and then applied goop to all corners. Let it cure overnight and will |
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| reinstall oil cooler tomorrow. |
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