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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Fuel system and fire extuinguisher mount: 8 hours


  • Riveted fire extinguisher doubler to front spar cover.
  • Riveted firewall fuel fitting doubler to firewall
  • Many hours of fuel tubing research and practice
  • Made one fuel tube (later remade!)
  • Modified fuel tube bender (later replaced with better 180 degree bender!)
Firewall fuel fitting and doubler:

Mocking up electric fuel pump to determine tube requirements:

Fuel pump with 1st generation 180 degree fuel line:

1st generation filter to pump line - this turned out to be too large to fit under the pump doghouse so it was later scrapped.

I went though a lot of tubing practicing but I want the fuel lines perfect.

Riveting this doubler was trickier than I expected: