Added the No Lift stencils and the fuel tank stencils so I can paint them this week. See photos.

Also, final fitting of the cowlings.

Also, installed the passenger door windows and put the door on.

After a lot of frustration and back and forth designing and making this bracket, after the third attempt I got it installed. I’ll tighten everything up and continue with the engine inspection so I can mount the cowling.

Installed the new cuff and the fabricated oil cooler bracket this weekend.

It’s been really cold here with temps dropping into negative numbers. I did manage to build a new bracket for the oil cooler. Finishing it up by adding four nut plates to hold the cooler.

It’s supposed to warm up next week.

New one has arrived. Now to wait until my Jury Duty is over and the weather warms back up to get it installed.

The temperature was around 60 today so that means a trip to the hangar. Removed the torn air induction cuff and the cracked oil cooler bracket found during my inspection prior to installing the bottom cowling.

I ordered a new cuff (108-6222801) and will make a new bracket this week.

The plan is to install the engine cowling soon, but that won’t happen this weekend. Hopefully the next 50+ day will happen soon.

The cuff should be here by Friday. I’ll make the bracket this week.

It’s too cold to get any work done at the hangar. Hoping this will change soon.

Thanks to the unusual weather this weekend, reaching the 60’s yesterday and 55 today, we were able to go to the hangar. Some airport bums stopped by to look at the Stinson. One was Chris Stokes who is the one restoring the A-37 Dragonfly. Had a nice conversation with him about his project and he mentioned a Stinson owner at Millard Airport near Omaha. I’ll have to go over and check it out.

We replace three nut plates on the nose bowl today. They were too bad but out of an abundance of caution we replaced all three. We connected the carb heat cable. We started safetying things in the cabin, too. This is one of the last big things we need to do. However, rain and snow starts tomorrow so we will have to wait before we can head back out.

Marvin, Linda, and Ryland visited over Thanksgiving.