Author Archives: pclifton

So yeah, it’s been a while again. I went for a track day at MSR Houston a few weeks ago, and during my second Sunday run session, I had a clutch failure in the car. After looking at part prices, … Continue reading →

OK, not a lot done tonight. Tasks like this make me understand old sayings like “90% done, 90% to go.” Things move along pretty quickly when you follow the plans, but when you get to something where you have to … Continue reading →

So today my package from Van’s arrived, containing my fuel pump and filter. In keeping with my previous decision, I’m going to focus on work with the fuel and brake lines (and anything else related to the forward fuse that … Continue reading →

So yesterday was pretty busy, and no work got done, but I made up for it with a productive day today. I started out by finishing up some miscellaneous tasks. First up were the rear rudder idler brackets. I bought … Continue reading →

Today I had lots of goodies come in from Aircraft Spruce. There was a set of hole duplicators, which I’ll use to drill those rudder pedal idler brackets up front, a tubing bender for when I get to making fuel … Continue reading →

I’d wanted to continue working on the rear rudder pedal brackets today, but that didn’t really work out. The idler brackets, which attach to the base of the gear towers, only have one prepunched hole; the other has to be … Continue reading →

So my main goal for today was to get the mid side skins assembled with the arm rests and bulkheads, and maybe painted if time allowed – and time did in fact allow. Pretty productive day all around. I actually … Continue reading →

I bailed out of work a little early today, with the intent of trying to get as much of the mid side skin parts primed as possible. As it turned out, there was ample time to get it all done. … Continue reading →

As alluded to last night, tonight I finished installing the aileron trim components that rivet to the inboard seat ribs. These parts were fitted to those ribs a while back, but never actually riveted in place. The left-hand bracket, where … Continue reading →

Pretty short night of work tonight. I started off by shooting those last two rivets in the mid-cabin braces. Getting those done was mildly tedious, but not too bad overall. Definitely not the best rivets I’ve ever shot, though. Then … Continue reading →