A pretty good day in the shop-- and a trip to Ace Hardware, Home Depot and O'Rileys. Chasing drawer pulls and cable stops for the throttle cables and chute cables and some 10-32 screws for the coil isolator pads. I have just about gotten all of the "before instillation" mounting done on all the cables and water lines.
We are now almost to the point where we make the eng bay sheet metal pull the eng,finish welding the new diagonals,seal the bulk head on both sides, and weld a bunch of nuts we will not be able to get to, and mount the sheet metal.
Then get the eng. finalized and install wire and plumb.
It never stops amazing me that I can spend several busy hours in the shop and to have no more that a few tapped holes in a now hard mounted bracket to show for it.
This thing continues to evolve in my pea brain:
In honor of the F 105 "Wild Weasels" from which my bomb bay tank came from, I will do my nose with "nose art." I think I will then put the name of "Ms. LIBERTY" on it in honor of all who have and are fighting for our liberties, be those battles foreign or domestic, in or out of uniform.