Pitch trim motor

Was sorting through my G3X install book and noticed I did not shield ground both ends of the pitch trim motor power wiring. So I added the missing airframe ground at the motor.

Various: 2.0 hours

Had to remake the heat servo bracket and moved outboard. It was too close to the left rudder pedal.

Installed cabin air vent. Torqued forward control column mount. Cut out forward air filter retainer.

Miscellaneous: 5.8 hours

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Final sanded and painted oil cooler plenum.

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Glued throttle quadrant cover to quadrant. Installed Garmin MAP sensor brass T. Sanded upper cowl and applied epoxy skim coat.

Throttle quadrant and upper cowl: 3.3 hours

Painted throttle quadrant spacer cover. Sanded upper cowl micro and added more micro to low spots.

Miscellaneous: 3.3 hours

Sanded oil cooler plenum primer.

Fabricated throttle quadrant mixture lever spacer and cover plate. Don’t need the mixture arm with EFII.

Baggage door & aft stick: 2.8 hours

Trimmed baggage door forward and aft edges for proper fit.

Adjusted aft stick wiring to final position. Added stick pin lanyard.

Added EXPERIMENTAL placard to side panel.

Various: 2.5 hours

Primed bare areas of center skins adjacent to wing roots.

Fabricated aft stick reinforcement plate.

Static port bracket and pilot stick: 3.0 hours

Fabricated and bonded static port connector bracket to fuselage.

Fabricated pilot stick reinforcement plate out of leftover piece from stick shortening. Just need to tack weld then have the part TIG welded.

Mounted GPS shelf to instrument panel cover.

GPS antenna mount: 3.7 hours

Match drilled GPS mount to brackets. Primed mount and installed click bond and platenuts.

Drilled pilot stick for grip wire exit.

Brake lines & rudder stops: 2.6 hours

Finished brake line fabrication.

Decided to scrap the JDAIR rudder stops partly because I over trimmed one side and the throw was beyond 35° and I feel the stock stops are more robust. So I did the initial trim on the stops.

Installed seat heat harness clickbonds and one for the voltage regulator and gear tower harness.

Spent a couple hours removing rivets from the forward center section flange in order to get the proper spacing for the spar stubs.