A lot of people say once you move your airplane building project to the hangar, the progress you make on it tends to slow down since it's not living arm's-length away from you. There's some truth to that, although when you're working at the airport, every plane that you hear taking off on a distant runway provides a fair amount of motivation to keep plugging away.
It's even more motivating to have the guys who've been building the RV-7 one hangar down, to push it out and see if the engine starts. That was the case last night. I was on fire-extinguisher and videographer duty.
After a celebratory beer, I went back to work on the stupid cowl, adding some fiberglass so that I can sand down pieces of it to make the damned thing fit.
From what I can tell, it'll take about four or five more first-engine starts to get me to finish this aspect of the project.
Congrats on your engine start. Didn't realize
ReplyDeleteyou were so far along! Sounds to me like you still have a timing, plug or lead issue. Shouldn't continue to shake in the mounts like that. Bead blast all the plugs and try it again.
John