Fuel System installation #1

Been  working on the fuel system recently. Last year I bought a new flop tube for the header tank. I decided to change it for two reasons: 1) To shorten it so that it gets closer to half the length of the tank and 2) because the old flop tube was very stiff and probably 10+ years old. Here's the comparison between the old and new flop tube once I cleaned and transferred the attachment fittings:

I used fuel lube for both NPT fittings. Once I was ready to reinstall it in the header tank... Doh!!

I gave the tube to my friend Scott for him to remove about 0.040" on the OD of the brass end with his lathe. In the meantime, I started installing the boost pump, fuel filter and some tubing in between. It feels so good to take components from the shelves back on the airplane. Here's my little progress so far:

As a followup to my post on the side panel brackets,  I finally decided to change all the nutplates on the vertical brackets as well. The access was bad on some of them and required the use of one lug nutplates (K2000-3).

Anxious to get the flop tube back from Scott and resume my fuel system installation!