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Hour 73 - Brakes and Tank Removal

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In this video, I'm starting to rip out the main tank in so that I can completely rebuild it.  If you've been following along you've heard me gripe about this tank leaking into the surrounding foam.

The first thing I did here was remove the airhart brake cylinders from the pilot side arm rest.  Then I used the holes I cut in the top of the tank as a way to start the work of jigsawing the rest of the foam and glass sandwich out of the fuselage.

This is kind of a pain to have to redo this! Undecided But the fuel system is kinda' important in the grand scheme of things!  So I want to make sure that it's redone correctly.  (It certainly wasn't done right the first time!  Yikes!

As always I invite your feedback below, or in the forums