I’ve been taking care of a lot of random stuff on the fuselage before starting on the canopy. First up was mounting the brake reservoir..not too difficult except for figuring out how to accommodate the brake connection on the aft bottom.  I traced a hole around it, then used a Unibit to open the hole. After everything was drilled and ready for mounting, I laid a bead of firewall sealant around the connection where it penetrates the firewall.

I also installed static lines in the aft fuselage. I was able to do this without crawling into the tailcone, but it was a lot of work.  The static lines are held in place by RTV – this is what Vans’s instructions call for so I hope it works. I also ran the static line forward through the clips I installed when riveting the aft turtledeck skin.

I also ran fuel lines from the fuel selector to the fuselage sides.  Once again, I kinda screwed up here – this should have been done while the wings were temporarily installed.  Not a big deal, though – they can be tweaked when the wings are permanently installed.

Here’s the fuselage left side that gets routed to left fuel tank’s inverted pickup. Some builders have managed to do one continuous line from the selector to the tank, but I didn’t want to waste a lot of tubing figuring out how to do that so I’m installing an elbow fitting on the fuselage skin.  There will be another line that routes to the tank from this fitting.