mark donahue
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We were just installing the engine mount to the firewall and looking at the plans and noticed that they call for a hole to be drilled in the firewall to allow for the nosegear attach bolt to be installed from the backside. One place on the plans calls for a 1" hole and another calls for a 3/4" hole, but the thing is that the bolt can go in from the front/top just fine without drilling any hole. What have you guys done? Is there some sort of interferance with the exhaust system or something that makes installing the bolt from the front/top impossible with the engine installed? Even so, I don't really see any reason I'd ever need to remove that bolt unless the gear was damaged. I don't like the idea of drilling any more holes in the firewall than I need to.
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help.