I had been planning on installing the wheel pants and gear leg fairings while the plane was on jacks, but I’m simply running out of room in my garage. I needed to lay on the floor to align the left wheel pant, and I practically couldn’t do it. I had really hoped to accomplish pretty much all the construction at home, but it looks like the gear fairings will have to wait until I’m at the hangar.
Anyway, I mixed up another coat of epoxy with microlight and built up a little bit more around the air inlets. Here’s the upper cowl on the outside edge of the right inlet. The electrical tape is preventing the filler from lapping over onto the lower cowl and will provide a nice reference when sanding this to shape.
I also applied a little more filler to the inside edges of the inlets to fill in a small step that I had.
Here’s the outside edge of the upper cowl next to the left air inlet.
I also sanded down the second coat of filler on the prop ring. I still need to see how the gap looks with the prop on, but I’m pretty sure that the gap will be uniform all the way around.
