Firewall forward components

Alternator mount bracket installed and safety-wired.

Alternator installed. Several of the bolts are yet to be final-torqued, as the alternator’s final position is determined after mounting the prop.

Best to drape the alternator belt roughly in place now, lest one forget it until after the prop bolts have been torqued.

Alternator power wire installed and secured.

The new prop emerging from its nest.

Ta-da! Seventy-four inches of Hartzell goodness…

Spinner plate and doubler ring in process…

Spinner plate rough cut accomplished.

Spinner plate, doubler ring, and front spinner bulkhead ready for priming.

Spinner plate, doubler ring, and front spinner bulkhead primed.

Spinner plate and doubler ring riveted.

Prop has been placed in the workshop to come up to temperature overnight.

It’ll be mounted tomorrow and torqued later in the week after the special extension crowfoot wrench arrives.