| 1st thing mounted the gas struts for right door and tested.. AOK. Tested closing the door with only one pin, It would take an |
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| Unnatural effort to twist the door to get only on pin captured. To get the 'blast' tubes to point @ the mags, Got some #10 solid |
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| core copper wire and wrapped it around the tube, then used tywrapps to secure. Now I can bend it as needed. The Ram air had |
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| a stickly control, turned out the butterfly valve was rubbing on one side. Took some jewelers files and worked on it until it |
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| operated smoothly from inside the cockpit. Then final adjusted the conrtol arm and safetied the set screw. I cut the 4" sct tube |
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| for the oil cooler to final length and secured it using expandable clamps. Had an issue with the baffling and plenum. The forward |
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| most corner #2 cyl needed a screw to secure the front of the baffle to the cross member, but with the plenum installed it can't be |
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| reached, I found a 'clip-on floating blind nutplate that works great. I decided to tackle the O2 system install, the biggest issue is |
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| fabbing a mounting base to support it's wieght. I settled on some alum supports riveted along the J channels. Drilled out 7 rivets |
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| on ea J, Then fabbed some alum angle and flat stock to make the supports. Match drilled them to the J channels. The top |
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| pieces of Angle are bolted on serviceability. I'll make the platform of.062" and use countersunk nutplates to flush mount to the |
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| mounting brackets. I'm going to reorient my batteries as the cables need to pass under the OS mount and they aren't long |
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| enough to reach the current contactor locations. |
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