Today's mission: Finish out the remaining fuel tank. First order of business: safety wire the fuel pickup tube. Oh wait – I put the safety wire on backwards! Arrgh.
Ahem. Here it is again, properly safetied this time.
Mary took a bunch of photos while I was doing the proseal part. First the fuel sender gets gooped in place:
…with a nice seal all the way around the hole, plus a blob of proseal on the back of each nutplate.
Then I laid down a bead all the way around the access plate opening:
…which I then spread out with a popsicle stick.
If you are referring to this website during your fuel tank construction, take note! The float on the fuel sender in the photo below is on backwards. I discovered my error after I got all the proseal applied and was about to seal up the tank, but luckily was able to reverse the float without having to re-bend the wire (by popping the plastic float out of the wire loop, flipping it, and snapping it back in). That was a small moment of panic. If I'd paid closer attention in the first place, I would have noticed that the float was hitting the stiffener inside the tank.
Done! Sticky fingerprints everywhere, but it looks like we got a good seal all the way around. I'll know in a week after this cures and I perform a leak test.
