Brief Description: Fire seal firewall flanges and rivit on cowl hinge
Spent 6 hours at the hangar but dont have much done to show for it. @ hours work seems more realistic today. The rest of time was fiddle farting around I guess.
Started by calling Flightline Interiors and getting on the calander for my custm interior. Should be March completion timeframe.
Then I removed a zillion clecos holding on the top fwd skin. Was a bit in lala land because I somehow let my Baggage door fall to the ground!!!! Its damaged but I dont know yet If I need to rebuild part of it or just work some majic? Wont dwell on that...
I also noticed I have a very slow weeping brake leak on rt master cylinder where it connects to the plastic delivery line. Dag Nab IT!! I put the wrench to it once more and will let it sit again. I also applied lots of brake pressure over and over to get a leak started if its going to. Nothing! Sooooo, will see. If its leaking slowly again , I will drain fluid and start over.
I then had Brenda help with firewall sealant. Using Fire barrier 2000. Brenda would carefully spread the firewall flange from the side skin with a plastic tounge depressor while I squirted some seaant in the gap. Spread excess with finger, wipe off and continue around the firewall except for the top where the top skin gets rivited to. I also tried to get what I could reasonably reach on the inside firewall edge. That came out kinda sloppy loking but wont be visible.
I then clecoed on the left and right piano hinges and the left and right bottom hinges and hand squeezed 60 rivits. No issues with that thankfully!
Cleaned up my shop
Fire and smoke sealant added inside firewall edges
