I brought a bigger wrench from home today to get the castle nut on the bottom of the nose fork tightened. I also brought a scale to measure the breakout force. Although I 'lapped; the bellvue washers using emery paper (finishing w/ 220 grit) to 'pre break-in the washers. It was still a choice between 20 lbs and 34 lbs in order to get the castle nut on the cotter key hole. I opted for 34. I installed 2 parallel strips of 3M anti chaffe tape on the top of the nose gear leg to help with the lower cowl add/removal. Next task was to fine tune the aileron rigging. I ended up taking 2 more turns on the left aileron rod end to bring it 'up' . and that seems to have it pretty good between both sides. I'll wait til flying to see if any further rigging is needed. I removed the 2 960 washers on the bolt holding the VS and the elevatop stop. I replaced them with a single light washer, so now I've got plenty of thread showing beyond the nut. I disconnected the fuel lines from the fuel tank slipped on some clear plastic tubing. Got 5 gallons of fule from the self service pump. and proceeded to flush both tanks. I put 5 gallons in each side then rocked the wings as much as I could to slosh the fuel, and then drained the tanks. There was some minor specke that showed up in the bottom of the white bucket, but nothing major. I've already flushed the lines from the wing root to the fuel pump. reconnected th efule lines and tightened them under the seats.
