Landing Gear Bolt Orientation Option
Food for thought: I put my outboard bolts in from the top, and then inserted a steel bar in the bottom cavity of the gear tower, between the inboard flange and the bolt heads. This bar prevents the bolt heads from turning when the nuts are torqued. The bar is held in place by a little RTV and the interference fit.
Now the washers and nuts are under the fuselage, so the fairing in that area will have to be made a little deeper, or with a little hump in them to clear the nuts. I plan to cut holes in the fairings to access the nuts with the socket. Initial torquing was a one-person, easy job with a 'standard' socket wrench.
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Ken Cockrell
RV-8 Fuselage Slow-Build In-work; on gear
Tail Kit complete
Wings In-work
N247TM Reserved
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