Right wing nav light drilling template in place for…drilling!
Right wing nav light mount ready for its light.
Right wing nav light in place.
Right wing nav light wiring underway.
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Right wing nav light drilling template in place for…drilling!
Right wing nav light mount ready for its light.
Right wing nav light in place.
Right wing nav light wiring underway.
Firewall-mounted goodies beginning to come together.
Master relay, starter solenoid, and assorted wiring in place.
Sender manifold with attached oil & fuel pressure sensors along with the fuel pressure hose.
Manifold pressure sensor mounted and awaiting connection.
The first item from the Stein panel crate installed!
Transponder antenna (obviously) now wired to the aft end of the cable installed in the tailcone way back last summer.
A little better view of the panel awaiting its date with the fuselage. The bubble wrap is covering an absolute rat’s nest of wiring and remote boxes, though not nearly all of them.
Getting this all connected – and all of the boxes mounted – is NOT going to be fun.
Fun times crawling into the baggage area today to complete running coiled lines forward from the tailcone. In this case, the forward end of the transponder cable on the right side and the static line on the left side.
I also took a moment to tighten the headset & mic jacks, drill, install, & tighten the LEMO jacks, and connect the 12V power port ground wire. Hey, why not, I was there.
All sorts of stuff has now been run forward and up behind the subpanel. This area is about to look a whole lot worse before it begins to look any better.
I’m going to need to come up with a better stick wiring solution. Stein’s neat little connector backshells won’t pass through the snap bushing holes. I may just connect all the D-sub pins directly and heat shrink them together. We shall see.
Canopy micro-switch installed. Wiring and adjustment will be done later.
Defog fans installed. Wiring to be neatened, obviously, and connected later.
Remaining canopy seals cut and ready to go. Main wheels and brakes on deck…
Gear attachment angles and upper gear braces being primed.