Property of Performance Aircraft Unlimited
Property of performance Aircraft Unlimited
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Chapter 3
Landing Gear and Tail Wheel Assemblies
Now that we’re ready for assembly, we are going to start with the main landing gear first. You will need to
locate the following parts to begin assembly. We tried to keep the landing gear in a scale location while
providing a canister tunnel.
Place an “
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What you will need in this chapter for the main gear:
Carbon fiber main gear
One pair of 3.5 inch wheels
One pair of Dubro axles
Four wheel collars
Hardware pack marked “main wheels”
Fuselage
Rudder
Tail wheel assembly
Not Provided:
½” and a 9/16” inch wrench
Blue loc-tite
Allen wrench for wheel collars
Use a small soldering iron and open the holes for the
main gear bolts.
Install the landing gear to the fuselage using the four
8/32 bolts, spring washers, and flat washers, and
compression nuts.
Fasten the axles to the main landing gear with the
lock nuts.
Using your four wheel collars and wheels, center you
wheels on the axles. Place the collars as close to the
wheels as possible but ensure the wheels still rotate
freely. Again, we don’t want the wheel to move from
side to side and contact the wheel pants. Also, we
recommend the use of loc-tite on the setscrews of the
wheel collars to prevent them from vibrating loose.