Alternate air cable installed. Canopy jettison handle cleaned up, smoothly functioning, and permanently installed.
OAT probe routed down from G3X and out the left wing root wiring hole. Lots of zip ties along the way. I was initially concerned that it wouldn’t be sufficiently long, but I feel better about it now. It only has to make it to the first inspection panel in the wing.
GEA24 sensor wires run forward through the firewall and awaiting their respective connections over the next few days.
Most of the left-side (and all of the central) wires now zip-tied up and out of the way. The Comm2/IBBS tray has been drilled to mount the backup alternator’s external regulator; installation is awaiting the arrival of two K1000-3 nutplates. It seems as though one is always awaiting the delivery of something or other on a project such as this…
Canopy jettison handle has been taped and painted. The idea was a sort of striped effect on the business end, but we’ll see how it turns out.
The panel has been drilled for the canopy jettison handle and its supporting snap bushing is now in place. The control cable bracket has been drilled for cables and mounted to the panel. Hope I don’t hit my head on the damn thing while working under the panel for the next few weeks.
BTW, for anyone interested in future, the sizes of the cable holes (for the stock Van’s cables) are, from left to right: ½”, ⅜”, ¾”, and ¾”.
For a guy of my size and limited flexibility, having to work on my back under there with my hands up over my head in a range of awkward angles is pure misery. Mark my words: I will NEVER do this again. Just ask Jeanie…
Transponder tray and mounting plate clamped in place for drilling.
Transponder and backplate attached to the mounting tray and clecoed in place.
Left-side wiring has now been largely cleaned up. The white wire bundle still dangling to the left is Stein’s main buss – I’ll attach it to the forward face of the sub-panel next week once I receive the ANL fuses, etc. required for my dual-alternator configuration. The output wire from the shunt will run to the buss bar’s open post and it’ll just be easier to attach before installing it up on the sub-panel.
The white wire trailing to the right is the OAT probe which will have to be brought down behind the breaker panel and through the central tunnel until exiting the left side of the airplane with the main harness and making its way to the first inspection panel in the left wing. I hope the probe wiring is long enough…
Next up will be pulling the breaker panel, trimming the edges of the support bracket to clear the breaker buss bar hardware on the backside of the panel, and applying some adhesive rubber insulation to the inside of the bracket. Once that’s done, the breaker panel will be reinstalled and the Left & Right main harnesses will be zip-tied up out of the way along with the long breaker pigtail.
Then, onto the right side dangling bits. I’m leaving next Friday for the F1 race in Austin, so Thursday is my deadline to get all of this done. We’ll see how I do…
