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.

A friend from Portland OR stopped by to see the Stinson.

Fitting the left wheel pant. The chrome piece will be installed later. This is just to make sure everything fits properly.

Now it’s the small items that will take some time to finish up. One such item is the left side gas cap which I failed to paint a while back. It’s also the small trim pieces around the windows and one piece from the cowling that needs paint.

The temps went from 90 in Saturday to 62 today so we spent some time at the hangar in sweatshirts today.