Last time I worked on this was June 6, then it took me a while to find someone with a grinder I could use to cut down some brackets, then I had to tie it all together. While I was at it, I put in the short pushrods for the front wheel. Those are hard to get in there, with the spacers that in there tight on the AN bolts. In any case, I figured I did all this work, so I might as well get to sit in the plane and move the rudder pedals and watch the steering steer. I know I will need to disassemble it later, but for now, let's let it look like progress!

A problem I ran into was that the brackets that get rivets to the floor to hold the pedals didn't stay fluish against each other, which means that the thinner aluminum pieces that go over the top to capture the bearings didn't slide in easily. In fact, it was a royal pain! I used vice grip pliers to hold things in place while I pressed the locks down, and on a few I had to "tap" them with a little bit of force, but they all got in.