Fuel pump hose, engine ground, fuel shutoff safety wire, control stick | 2.9.2021

Started the night by fabricating a new hose for the engine driven fuel pump to fuel servo connection. This is a really tight fit, and I've tried like 4 different things here, this is the best so far, and what I'm going with. 45s resulted in too tight of a bend in places.

Hose with fire sleeve

Hose installed.

 I then fabricated an engine ground cable.

Going into the cabin to meet up with the ground block there and the 2ga cable back to the battery.

And here it is on the drilled and tapped engine spot.

After that was done, I rigged up a way to safety wire the fuel shutoff valve open. I didn't want to safety around the aluminum fuel line because the stainless safety wire would wear through. So what I did was fasten an adel clamp around the fuel line with a drilled head AN3 bolt. This will give me a place to safety to without wearing anything. I drilled a hole through the fuel shutoff handle, and this will get wired to the bolt head when it's time for that. It's on my "things to do before first flight" list, but I suspect I'll need it before then so I left it undone.

Lastly I prepped the stick for the Millin/Dugas control stick mod. This gives better contact with the torque tube and reduces slop. I had already done this to the original stick I had, but then that was too short for my grip. So I had to do it again.

Basically grind the leg off the stick and make the remaining plate flat.

Thanks for stopping by!
- Jeff