Had a break through today, pun intended. I made a modification to my original bracket for the proportioning valve to make sure no contact could be made with the seat frames. It required drilling and filing the part that stuck up about the seat rails. Now, there is absolutely no way the seat frames can contact the bracket.
The break through came when I figured out how to mount the parking brake unit. Some times you just have to dump out the scrap bin on the floor and sort though it. I found the perfect piece of scrap to make the mount from. It was some angle aluminum that was wide enough to be the mount. After a lot of cutting, shaping, filing, drilling and sanding I had the part. I mounted the parking brake to it and then mounted the assembled piece in the fuselage. Works perfect. Simple is better.
Hopefully, all the new fittings I have on order will allow me to mate everything up. If so, I'm nearly done with the brakes.
This afternoon I received my new flap springs. The factory springs are too long and consequently they are weak and allow the flaps to droop when on the ground. The factory's solution is to cut 1.5" off the spring and bend a new hook. I tried that with unsatisfying results. So I went on an internet mission to find a replacement spring which I did. They arrived today. I quickly installed them and hooked up the flap cables to give them a try. They seem to work great plenty of power. I'll know more when I get the flaps installed. NOTE: The spring I found is exactly the same wire diameter and outside diameter as the factory spring, it's just 6.5" long vs 8.75". Again, the factory recommends cutting at least 1.5" off theirs making it 7.25". So, mine is .75" shorter.
40 degrees of flaps
The other parts that arrived in the mail today were the quick disconnect for the brake remote mount reservoir. Really nice piece, allows disconnecting the brake line from the reservoir without leaking or requiring bleeding of the brakes.
I painted the D-Sub brackets for the wing.
Last but not least, I ran the antenna wires to the transponder ground plane and connected the Com2 antenna to the unit. I had forgot to do this when we installed them so I had to cut some zip ties and re-zip them into the cable bundle running down the center of the fuselage. I also routed the antenna wire for the Com 1 radio from the upper left rear of the skylight area forward and down the windshield pillar on the pilot side.
