The wings are on for good!
Steve stopped by to help me with the wings. First item of business was to remove the wings. The pins came out very easily once the wing was lifted a little bit.
With the wings off, we got the fuselage off the sawhorse, deburred the holes for the fairings, drilled for nut plates, countersunk/dimpled, and installed the nut plates. That all took quite a while.
I also flared the fuel lines, cleaned up the area I trimmed on the rear spar, and drilled a hole for the pitot tubing. I put Steve in charge of getting a pull line through the wing conduits.
Once everything was ready, we got the wings right up next to the fuselage and pulled the wires through. The only one that was tricky was the outside air temp probe because the wire was too short to reach the first wing access port. We also pulled the AOA tubing through the conduit. That all worked very well.
Time to get the wings on. I used the temporary hardware store bolts to get the wing in the proper position and then put in the larger close-tolerance wing bolts. The top ones went in pretty easily with some Boelube and some taps from a dead blow hammer. Due to the wiring, I couldn’t hammer the bottom bolts, so I used a flat set in the rivet gun turned way down low. I kept reminding myself not to drive in the bottom bolts too far so I could get the nuts on.
By this time, we’d been at it all day and it was getting late in the afternoon. I was getting to tired to even attempt starting the engine. Plus it was raining out. Still, it was very major progress to get the wings on permanently.
