It's kind of a shame the avionics kit is delayed for four or five months, which keeps me from doing canopy work because the temperatures have been hovering near 100 for the last few days. That also restricts my work to a few hours in the morning. This must be what living in Phoenix is like.
The last several days have had me working on the modification to the preformed radiator coolant hose, which I pulled off before attaching the engine. The hose is cut around the bend tangent line and then reinstalled. Neat trick. There's virtually room to get a hand close to the attachment point to get any "oomph" into pushing it on. Plus you've got the spring clamp to deal with (by the way, the spring clamp pliers should be in everybody's toolbox). So it's mostl a matter of pushing from the other end of the hose.
Eventually, after shedding a pint of blood, I got it on. I think. It's impossible to see the underside of the spot. I added the spring clamp and then added the hard aluminum tube from the radiator to it, connecting it to the radiator with a four inch tube and spring clamps. Another 1" piece of tube was bonded with RTV so that it can be zip tied to a coolant hose out of the #4 cylinder for adding stability.
