General Install Process

[Jim P]

For a -7 with an IO-360-M1, after the engine is hung on the mount, what's the general install process flow. Controls, Baffle, exhaust? Whats the best order to tackle the f/w forward stuff?

Jim

[dpansier]

After hanging the engine I did the exhaust next. My thinking was the need to route the wiring, hoses and control cables away from the hot exhaust.
Don
RV-7 Finish Kit

[painless]

Basically work from the inside out. Don't install the exhaust until after you get the throttle/mixture controls set up for example. Just makes it easier to get at things if you keep the inside to outside concept in play.

Regards,

[dan]

Philosophically...FIRST install the things for which there's no choice where they go (exhaust & baffles). Then you can install the things that are a little more flexible (wires & cables & hoses), and clamp them to those other "fixed" things.