Although I failed to report it in yesterday’s blog post, late last night I spent about 2-1/2 hours soldering up the wiring harness on the Left wing Nav/Strobe and leading edge landing wig-wag lights, respectively.

So this morning I headed off to the hangar with the lights and a bunch of ancillary tools and gear in hand to install the left wing lights.

Guy Williams was coming over to my hangar to help me out, and while I waited for him to show up I assembled a utility cart for the hangar.  I also prepped the wing end by drilling out the protective saran plastic wrap from the Nav/Strobe light bracket threaded mounting holes, that I had embedded into the holes to protect the threads during paint.

I then prepped the wing end for running the wires for the Nav/Strobe light by using RG-58 cable to run a pull wire.  I also fished out the bracket ground wire.

I then installed the left wing end AeroLEDs Nav/Strobe mounting bracket with new screws.

After Guy arrived, we ran the Nav/Strobe light wires through the wing conduit and initially installed the light assembly.  I reiterate the word INITIALLY since the wing end surface wasn’t as aligned as I need it to be to get the light to mount without about a 0.07-0.085″ gap on the top aft interface between the light and wing end surface.  I’ll work that later.

Guy also helped me run the wiring for the left wing leading edge landing & wig-wag light.  I’ll do the final aiming alignment of both wings leading edge lights once the wings are installed, before the lenses are mounted.

Here’s a final shot of the left wing lights initial installation.

Back home in the shop I spent another 3 hours cleaning up and securing wiring, which involved also extending a handful wires to allow them the length to route around the installed GRT HXr EFIS and the GNS-480 mounting tube with good clearances.

Moving forward my assessment is that I’ll need to work the left side avionics bay and instrument panel wires for a good 3-4 hours as well to be ready to install both the HXr and GNS-480 GPS.

Still… pressing forward!