Wheels and glare shield fixings

Mounted the wheels. It required 6 mm extra of shimming by using one 3 mm washer on each side in addition to the dust covers. Without the washer on the inside, the brake pads would lock the wheel, even when pushed all the way in, and without both of them the lock pin wont engage the nut. Strange. I used Biltema wheel bearing grease and Biltema Brake cylinder paste.

Started with the mods from Airward for glareshield, tank, windshield and panel removal. There will be some refitting of angles and stuff to get all those screws in correct places. Not too much, but getting the kit earlier would be easier.

   

Landing gear painted and Airward

Painted the landing gear. It looks kind of brownish in the picture, but it's light gray in reality (RAL 7035)

Received the stuff from AirWard. I ordered a cabin heating kit, a necessity here in Norway. A cabin fuel shut off handle kit. The fuel shut off valve is not accessible from a strapped in position. With this kit from AirWard I will have a nice red handle positioned on the panel. Tow down bolts and cowling retainers of the "click on" type. The kits looks very nice and very complete with all nuts and bolts and wires and tubes etc included.