I exercised the system today and got the rod end bearing adjusted as best I could. I’ve never found a good way to accurately measure the middle of a bolt hole on two ends. There must be some tool that allows you to do that or some process but I’ll have to look it up. Either way, I got that all done, everything bolted up (which the flap horns were absolutely the hardest and the worst to reach) and I went ahead and put the access panels over it for now until I need to come back and finish other things up down the road.
I got the bushing blocks cut first. I decided to skip shaping the blocks to minimize the weight of the blocks. They couldn’t weigh more than a pound all four of them together so cutting off all of the optional parts wouldn’t make a huge difference. I cut off the required parts and moved on. Little did I know that the radiusing was also a requirement not just the cut. I ended up having to pull them back out to make that radius but it wasn’t too bad. I also had to shave a small amount of material from the outer skin to get the torque tube to go through like it was supposed to. After all of that I got the tube put in and everything bolted together. I then installed the flap motor but I will have to power it on tomorrow to its shortest and fullest reach to make sure that everything meets the requirements. Once that is done I can bolt up the flap motor to the torque tube and then bolt the flap horns to the torque tube.
Oh, on a side note all of my front seat components came in today! So I now have a complete front seat kit which I can get started on soon.
I got all of the control horns and torque tubes drilled and primed. Next is to get the bushings blocks cut to size and then mounting everything. Then I have to get the flap motor mounted and this section will be done!
