Bog day today, as it was engine hanging day. I first get the engine of the transport box floor. The picture was taken before the engine was turned to be hoisted from the propeller side and not from the engine mount side.



The engine installing procedure is not straightforward as the engine mount is called dynafocal, which means the four bolts used are pointing towards the center of the engine and will align with the mount once the shock mounts are compressed. The following link on VansAirForce explain a way to do it, and it worked.
The two upper bolts were installed without any problem. Here I a am, with my friend Jean-Pierre trying to see how to install the third bolt at the lower right. A little rocking of the engine and it was installed without difficulty.



The fourth bolts is another problem. The shock mount is not aligned with the hole in the engine. We tried a few thing to get the alignment correct : unbolt the other bolts, hoisting the engine and the fuselage, but nothing worked. The answer was in the procedure, but I had not fully understood it. The idea is to use a tool (screwdriver or punch) to move the hole of the rubber mount in alignment with the engine (and not move the engine).
We needed the same time for the last bolt as for three first. And after 1h30mn of work, here are three happy workers.
Still some work ahead though.



Sabine had to check that the engine was bolted on correctly.



After the bolts were bolted down, the difficult part was installing the cotter-pins as they are almost impossible to insert and bend.



Then we installed the propeller spacer, the spinner rear mounting plate, some wodd to simulate the propeller thickness and the spinner forward mounting plate.
This is needed to position the engine cowling as the it needs to positionned with a reference to the rear spinner mounting plate.



And just for fun, the upper cowl in position.