So tomorrow is the big inspection day. My A&P suggested I have everything opened up for him and ready for inspection. He also relieved my fears when he said he would sign it off pending a satifactory inspection but I could assemble everything at my leisure.
I spent the day dismantling the entire interior. Cleaning, inspecting, and repacking grease in the nose wheel bearings. Removing all inspection plates and various fairings/wheel pants. Cousin Vlad stopped in to lend a hand and gave some pointers on a few items.
Removing the entire interior might not look like a big job but it is a lot of work when you get into it.
When you are done it should look like this.
I even had to drill out the pop rivets in the baggage floor area to access a faulty strobe light power supply. (Note to self: do not install a component you may need to get to in an area with ZERO access!!)
I have never seen this part of my plane before. I am learning alot as I go. In this picture I learned that my altitude hold is vented to the cabin (and not plumbed into the static system) which explains why there is a change of pitch when I open or close the vent while using the altitude hold.
Nose wheel bearings serviced. I learned that I have a unique spacer system that sandwiches the bearings. It is one large machined spacer with thread on the opposite side to accept the other half of the spacer which is held in perfect tension with a small screw into a keyway. Cousin never saw this before. We had A&Ps a few hangars down help us with the service but it was pretty simple.
This side of the spacer is restricted from movement by the smaller AN bolt.
Cowl, plenum, and spinner removed.
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All inspection panels and wing root fairings removed.
