Jacking up a RV7

[Tony Petrone]

Can a RV7 be jack up from the tie down points on the bottom of the wing?

[BH1166]

Remove tie downs, recommended to jack at this location by all. I used a bolt in lieu of tie down, a piece of 2x6 wood with hole to accept bolt head for alignment, jack piston on other side. Wood distributes the load a bit and obviously makes more stable vs jacking on the bolt head alone.

[74-07]

https://antisplataero.com/products/quality-jack-points

[Taltruda]

I just used these to jack a -8 and a -9a. I tied an old car jack to the tail for weight and only lifted one wing at a time just enough to get the wheel off. The wing jack was a harbor freight bottle jack propped up on some 4x4 cribbing that was screwed together for stability. The jack had a divot drilled into the jack pad for these points to go into so the plane didn’t slide off.

[KatanaPilot]

We use these for our RV-7A.

https://bogertaviation.com/products/rv-jack-pads

[MacCool]

I made a couple of these, and used some smoothed-off grade 8 carriage bolts in the wing tie-down mounts as jack points.

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[elev666]

Originally Posted by MacCool

I made a couple of these, and used some smoothed-off grade 8 carriage bolts in the wing tie-down mounts as jack points.

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Same here , only thing to be cautious of is the amount of fuel ahead of your jack points if you do both sides at once , center of gravity will have you doing a nose stand as the tail comes up on conventional gear A/C ! How do I know this 😬

[MacCool]

Originally Posted by elev666

Same here , only thing to be cautious of is the amount of fuel ahead of your jack points if you do both sides at once , center of gravity will have you doing a nose stand as the tail comes up on conventional gear A/C ! How do I know this ��

Yes, I was warned . I have a ring in the floor that I use to secure the tail down with a cam-lock tie-down strap for that purpose, although so far I've only used the things for main gear tires/tubes/brakes one at a time. I bought a little $20 Harbor Freight scissors jack that I use for the nose gear (just had a flat a little earlier in the week).

[Rick_A]

Originally Posted by KatanaPilot

We use these for our RV-7A.

https://bogertaviation.com/products/rv-jack-pads

A bit pricey but worth it. It would make for a really bad day if your plane slipped off the jack.

[ALagonia]

Originally Posted by 74-07

https://antisplataero.com/products/quality-jack-points

I bought this to Jack my 9 with a Jack stand I fabricated but did not like how close the Jack head got to the wing skin. Remember as the wing goes up the angle increases. So I bought a carriage bolt and use that instead.