It’s been a little while since my last post, we’ve been busy with family and work. Here’s an update on the fuselage work I’ve done in the last couple of weeks.

Sometimes the most simple things take extra work, like fabricating this simple little tunnel from one piece of sheet metal and two pieces of z-channel. This thing didn’t fit quite as the plans said it should so I had to find some scrap sheet for a replacement…but it’s done.

With the aft tunnel cover finished I started on the heater plenum/forward tunnel cover and fuel valve/fuel pump. Bending the heater plenum louvers didn’t go quite as well as I wanted, but they look mostly ok and no one will ever see them anyway.

I purchased an Andair FS20x7 fuel selector valve, FX375-M fuel filter and PX375-TC fuel pump a couple of years ago and have been looking forward to fitting them. In the pic above everything is clecoed together in anticipation of laying out and drilling the fuel selector and filter/pump mounting holes. The 3/8″ fuel line that connects the two is a bit tricky to bend and I don’t want to lock everything down til I can test fit the whole assembly.

More to follow…