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Landing Gear and Wheel Pants
1. Locate the landing gear and bolt in place
using the four 3mm x12mm bolts and flat wash-
ers.
Use thread lock compound
. The blind
nuts are already installed in the fuselage.
2. Locate
2- wheels
2- axles (4mm bolts)
2 4mm nuts
2 4mm washers
2 4mm wheel collars
2 Wheel pants
4 #6 washers
3. Locate the two fiberglass wheel pants. Look
inside the wheel pant and identify the plywood
pad. This pad is on the inside portion of the
wheel pant and goes against the landing gear.
The pants are just alike except for this mounting
pad. drill a 5/32” hole into this mounting pad,
1/4” up (or into the bottom of that pad) from the
bottom edge and centered on the wheel open-
ing.
4. Insert 4mm bolt through landing gear and
hole in wheel pant. Place the washer over the
bolt and start the nut on the end. You will now
have to put the two #6 washers and the wheel
into the wheel pant and let the bolt go into the
wheel as you tighten the nut down. When the
nut is tightened all the way down, it will clamp
the wheel pant to the landing gear leg. You can
rotate the wheel pant into the correct position
and finish tightening the nut. A drop of thread
lock works well here. You can then install the
4mm wheel collar on the end of the bolt to hold
the wheel in place.
Note: The wheels provided are good for asphalt
run ways but not for some grass fields. Use a 2-
3/4” wheel for grass run ways. You might have
too open the bottom of the wheel pants more.
