I'm 5 months behind on your videos but I hope you and your family are all safe. The fires in CA are terrible and I hope you, your family and home dodge those fires. Be safe dude.
loved your old plane montage... it must be really hard for you to sell .... your face was all sad during this video ... I felt so sad... hope all this goes without harming anyone... cheers and try to smile😃
Hey Bryan. If You want something bad enough almost always You have to give something up. All the work and thought that You have put into this build will surely give the results and adventures that You seek. Keep these videos coming.
Loved the slideshow at the end, Byran. It's impossible to explain the feelings pilots have for their airplanes. And there are no words to fully describe the depth of that relationship.
Not many, but some days I'm glad to be living on the boring old planes of Wyoming.... It's sure been a bad year for fires. First Australia and now the Western US...I got to see you & your dad go get this kit, nor have I missed an episode.... Man it would brake my heart to find out if burned, & I'm just a viewer... Looking forward to seeing you in the air.... Stay safe !!!
I can only imagine how hard it was to sell your model 5. Hopefully your new one gets done soon and treats you just as good as the last for many more years of joy.
A really touching and heartfelt tribute to your 5 at the end of the video, Bryan. Obviously some great memories you had with that plane and it definitely came across!
Sad to see the series 5 go. What a great tribute, though! Glad you and your family are safe. Thank you for letting us follow along with your build. Can’t wait to see first test flight footage!
Whoa... oh man, letting the 5 go couldn't have been easy, even if it was bound to happen eventually. As you said, extra motivation. Thanks for the cool videos Sir, we truly enjoy them!
You are stupid smart dude. Thanks for sharing your incredible skills. Also thanks for sharing the personal stuff - motivation etc. so real and true! Goold luck
The engine in that 5 might’ve been heavy, but it sure did sound sweet. I’m sure it was hard to part with. Looks like you had a lot of great times in it. But...you’ll have good times in the 7, too. 👍👍
Brian, great stuff. I'd love to understand how you bent and shaped your firewall. I'm preparing to install mine on my Highlander and would love to learn how you did that.
I see You had a wooden prop on Your M5 how did that work for You? I am thinking about a wooden prop on a M7 that I found for sale. And I would like to a Culver prop. Any ideas you have would sure help. Thank You in advance.
Hi Bryan, curious as to which insurance company you went with for the build insurance, have been building my Highlander without any and realize I have invested too much now and would be a major loss if something happened to it in my garage/shop at home.
not sure what 'too full' means WRT the APEX engine, but the dry oil sump design in my automobile engine demands a slightly different approach to measuring the oil level in the reservoir. it involves running the engine for a few moments, shutting it off and only then checking the oil.
"I put my sled up on its right side once in deep snow and got a vapor lock. Pulled all the hosed off the top of the oil tank and plug them with chunks of hose, bolts, and hose clamps. You are going need to pressurize your oil tank with compressed air. The return line is left open. Then with the tip of an air gun and a wet rag I pressurize the tank with a couple of shots with the air gun. There is a valve in the bottem of these engines, when there is oil on one side and you turn the motor over it sucks the valve open and pull oil threw the engine, when turned off the valve closes. If you have a vapour lock in there it can't suck oil.....after a couple of blows with the air I rolled the motor over with the primary clutch by hand until oil started to come out the return line. Hooked the hoses back up and start it." This is from a q/a forum I found on the the net.....So with a valve at the motor preventing flow till the pump pulls oil threw, circulating through out the motor, & returning it to the reservoir, if I understand correctly the placement of the reservoir shouldn't matter only the suction & return lines....🤔 Just remember the valve so if you loose oil pressure, with no visible leaks it would be the first place I'd check...👍
Re-Welding coolant tank. I know what your saying about building it yourself but you did not build the tank so does welding in the bungs yourself vs having someone else do the welding really matter?
