Larry Thanks.
The RR plans do not give any clue and on top of it the GP 5pt mount has 5/8" 4130 tube with integral round steel bearing plates on the Engine side and it just seemed like something beyond a "Wood Washer" would be needed on the cabin side but no clue. I was thinking 1/8" aluminum for the minor weight savings but 1/8" thk steel would never bend. I guess placing the castle nut AN310-8 on the engine side would be easier. Now I just have to establish the length of the (5) AN8's but that is easy enough. Should get the nose gear in a week or so and I have lined up someone to fab a 3-gallon aluminum header tank that will over flow the excess to pump suction. How well do vented fuel caps work in place of vent lines for tank vents. I will be making the Fwd deck removable for service access using hinges as Mark did. Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry&Sallie Flesner wrote: > At 09:09 PM 5/10/2006, you wrote: > >I guess I will use some 1/8" thk alluminum between the wood and a washer and > >then castle nut & cotter pin. Should get the Nose Gear from Diehl within a > >week or so > >Don > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I'm using a four point HAPI VW mount with my 0-200 and I used > 1/8" steel plates on each side of the firewall at each mount point. > The head of the bolt is on the cockpit side with an all metal lock nut > on the firewall side for ease of inspection. If you look closely in the > following two photos you can see the bottom mounts on the cockpit > side. I wanted to spread the "crush" area on the firewall when I went > to tighten down the bolts. Seems to be holding up just fine to date. > > http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/flesner/20.jpg > http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/flesner/2.jpg > > Larry Flesner > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
