Work has kept me away, so I haven't had much time to spend on the plane. A while back, I realized that the Van's spinner setup won't work with the Sensenich prop, so I had to order a spinner that Sensenich makes. What a difference in quality compared to Van's fiberglass parts! These parts are beautifully made from carbon fiber, and at least on the surface appear to be plug and play. That's a stark difference from the Van's stuff.
I continued to wrestle with the passthroughs for the control cables and finally got them both finished up. It LOOKS like there's a lot more room to work in there than there really is. The eyeballs clamp down pretty good on the cables, but I smeared some fire barrier over them anyway just to make sure there's no path for fumes around the cables.
I still have some work to do to protect the cables and clamp them down in a few places, but it's getting closer to being done at least.
With the cables now finalized on the firewall, I decided to get the backup alternator put in. All of the back and forth to get the extension and different studs paid off. It finally fits! That being said, getting the nuts on the bottom side was a nightmare. I have so far been able to get 3 of the 4 torqued down, but the bottom inboard nut is still a work in progress. The only way I've found to be able to get to it is with a wrench that is ground down and cut in half. Even with that, I can only get a fraction of a turn at a time. My fingers were getting sore after an hour of dealing with the alternator, so I called it for today. I'll finish up tomorrow.
