Van's RV-6 and ECI Titan Engine Kit build site: Leading edge riveted together

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Leading edge riveted together

I spent a good portion of the night getting the leading edge skin riveted on. The skin come out nice and now I have to put it on the spar and finish riveting it to the spar flanges. I can then pop rivet all of the ribs to the spar in the leading edge section. Next will be to put all the skins back on and start fabbing up the gas tank. Once the gas tank is drilled, I will pull it all apart and start working on riveting the wing skins on.

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Bottom engine assembly

Case halves going together. We are tightening down the some nuts on the thru bolts to pull the halves together uniformly. Make sure to put nuts on the thru bolts on the other side so you don't pull the thru bolt right thru the case.This where the sticky axle grease comes into play for the thrust washer option. I have to look in there with a light and poke at it make sure it was in place next to the crankshaft. It fell down onto the other washer but it ended up seating up against the crank face and working out.