We temporarily installed our new nose-gear engine mount see how how it fits, and while it was tight, it did fit. We had to add a few washers behind the lower mount point, but this was not unexpected. We checked the nosegear and it fit nicely. The firewall was removed for now as we are planning on making a template to help trim the top of the firewall once we can determine how it meets up with the cowling.
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| Temporary fitting of engine mount & nosewheel |
Since we had the engine mount attached, we decided to see how the Rotax ring mount mates to it. Unfortunately, we ran into a problem. The shock-mount isolators (Large rubber isolators) that we purchased from Rotax didn't fit. We contacted the factory and found that these parts were unique and we neeeded to purchase them from the factory instead of Rotax. So we returned the Rotax parts, and are now waiting for the new parts to arrive from Just Aircraft. So we are in a bit of a holding pattern for now until the new parts arrive.
One other thing we did was remove the pitch servo and change out 4 bolts that attached it to a mounting bracket (these were a little too long). The new bolts were torqued, and the assembly was remounted in the back of the plane.
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| Pitch servo with new bolts |
In the meantime, Michael has been spending many hours (days) putting together the schematics for the wiring using KiCad. A lot of time has been spent digging through all the manuals to make sure we get the wiring correct, and much time was spent sourcing parts like switches, circuit breakers, etc. Hours: 20
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