More Work on Forward Covers and Fuel Selector

I put the forward spar covers in place.  These are supposed to fit under the front edge of the seat pan, but I put it on top initially so that I could match drill the seat pan to one hole in the forward spar cover.

Here’s a closeup of the hole that needs to be drilled.  A nutplate will mount on the spar cover and a screw will go through the seat pan and into this nutplate.  If I put the spar cover behind the seat pan, I’d be drilling this hole blind.

After match drilling those holes (one per side), I installed the nutplates and reinstalled the covers.  Next, I cut the flange off of the fuel selector mounting plate flush with the forward face of the fuel valve cover and cut a notch in the bottom of the fuel valve cover so that it could temporarily sit over the fuel pump.  I then took the fuel pump top cover that Van’s sells for the Airflow Performance fuel pump kit and figured out how low I could mount it.  Since the Andair pump kit is significantly smaller than the Airflow Performance pump kit, I had previously decided to lower the cover as much as possible.  This will require fabricating custom side pieces, but that’s pretty easy.

After determining the mounting point, I drilled the fuel pump cover to the fuel selector cover.

After enlarging the opening in the bottom of the fuel selector cover, I fit the flange from the fuel pump cover inside the fuel selector cover.  These holes will get dimpled and these pieces will be riveted together along with the side covers I need to fabricate.

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