Holy cow. I thought this day would never come, but as of yesterday, I think I'm essentially done with the engine system installations. The job that put it over the top? The 30 second job of drilling the weep hole at the lowest point of the snorkel, so that if rain water gets in there while I'm parked outside, it has a place to drip out so I don't hydrolock the engine.

I'm calling it 12 hours for this entry, but really I only spend a few minutes on this yesterday. The significant time was hours and hours that were accumulated a few minutes at a time over the last several months that just weren't significant enough on their own to warrant individual log entries. Things like adding a wire tie here or there, or re-clocking an adel clamp, looking on the internet to see how other repo;le have done something.

This time also includes a healthy bit of looking with a flashlight an mirror just to make sure that I haven't done something stupid and that stuff is in an airworthy condition.

At some point I'm going for ask for additional eyes on this because their are a ton of different complicated systems running every which way and it's easy to overlook stuff if you're too close to it by being the one who put it together. There are also a couple of details to be done when closer to first engine start, but I'm essentially ready to cowl it up until it gets to the airport.