Rudder Pedals Installed and Rudder Cables Ran

Ok, I ended up having more time than I expected. By the time we got to the game we were only 20ish minutes away from kickoff and parking was now way too far away so I dropped the family off and went home. I ran the rudder cables while I was there which was much more difficult than I expected as the bushing they are running through require you to squish them to fit the spade of the rudder cable through it. Which this meant that all of the bushing I had installed previously had to be removed again, push the cable through it forcefully in the correct orientation and then reinstall it by running the cable through first and reseating it. And a few of these were deep in the tailcone which made it VERY difficult to get into without laying in it. But I didn’t want to put all 240lbs of me in the cone so I had to do the very difficult way LOL Either way, I got them run. Come to find out I have the same issue with the nutplates here as I did with the brake line on the firewall. It is a K1000-3 which is a 10-32 thread/size but the bolts they want me to put in there are 8-32…. I’m just going to order a good amount of them from Aircraft Spruce and be done with it. I don’t want to hit up my tech counselor every time I need one or two bolts. So I’ll bolt down the rear adel clamps which hold the rudder cabling sheath in place at the tail of the aircraft when I get those in. Oh, and I installed the brake reservoir on the firewall which didn’t take but 5ish minutes.

When I got home from picking the family up from the game I got the rudder pedal system installed. This took some drilling, cutting in half, and mounting of these plastic like blocks. I know it is a durable plastic but I don’t know what kind it is. Either way it made it where the pedals were pretty slick and moved well. All in all it was a good day’s work with three posts today.