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Test-fit the landing-gear struts into their openings in the wing panels.
NOTE: To ensure all of the landing-gear parts will
correctly fit together, install the landing gear as
shown in these instructions. (The fuselage is
visible in some snapshots to help to clarify
orientation during installation of the landing gear.)
Use the supplied metal straps and screws to secure
the main landing-gear’s struts into their openings in
the bottom of each wing panel.
Test-fit the upper-portion of the wheel pants’ leggings
over the landing gear and against the wing panels.
Test-fit the composite tubes and their wooden
mounting plates between the
predrilled holes in the lower
portion of the wheel pants and
through the triangular-shaped
space within the landing-gear
struts as pictured below.
(These composite tubes help
protect the fiberglass wheel
pants from being abraded by
the wing wires.)
NOTE: The left-
and right-side
lower wheel
pants are
NOT
the same: the
precut slot in
each of the
lower wheel
pants must face
outward,
toward the nearest wing tip.
Glue the predrilled wooden mounting plates inside
the lower portion of the wheel pants, but
DO NOT
GLUE
the composite tubes at this time.
As pictured at the right, slide one wheel collar onto
each axle, then position the lower portion of each of the
fiberglass wheel pants over the axle at approx.
90 degrees to the wing.
Rotate and lower the wheel pants
over their struts to align with the
wheel pants’ lower leggings as
pictured at the right.
Align the slots in the outer surfaces
of the wheel pants with the landing-
gear’s struts, then gently guide and
push the struts out through the slots
as pictured at the far right.
Wooden
mounting
plates.
Openings
for composite
tube.
