There is more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to torquing those bolts hidden in the gear tower in a very difficult place. My friend Bruce, in Cincinnati, has designed a piece of hardware that captures the head of the bolt inside the gear weldment so that the bolt can't turn. The bolt installs from the top with the nut on the bottom. The bolt can't turn, you torque it from the bottom, very easily. The exposed bolt/nut combination protrudes further than the bolt head in the plans configuration, but I've never seen an upper intersection fairing that wouldn't cover this additional exposure completely. Bruce is hopefully making me a set and I will change them out on my RV8 next annual. The extra opening in the gear tower is nice for routing wires and running vent lines, etc during your initial build, but not as necessary, since you won't have to go in there to check torque on those sinful nuts (nasty language loudly observed) every year.
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SH
RV6/2001 built/sold 2005
RV8 Fastback/2008 built/sold 2015
RV4/bought 2016/sold/2017
RV8/2018 built/Sold(sadly)
RV4/bought 2019 Flying
Cincinnati, OH/KHAO
JAN2020
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