If you swap the wheels, would that not reverse the relative location of the brakes. However, once you put on your wheel pants, you should not know the difference. But, I assume the the brake line is now coming down the leading edge of the gear, which is something else that you have to deal with.
Moving the mount more outboard, will not affect your W&B. It has already been affected a small amount by putting the weight of the gear in front of the spar and removing the nose wheel. Re-drilling is something for someone else to address, but I am sure it has been done before. I can tell you that I removed the retract mounts and plugged the holse with dowls when I installed the Diehl gear on mine. But the retract holes were inside the fuselage and I don't know if there is a significant structural difference there. On Monday, April 9, 2012 7:40 AM, Robert Boyd <ifly...@gmail.com> wrote: ============= Could I get some advice on a few things? I recently removed the nose gear from my project and will be going conventional. HEY!! 1-I flipped my Diehl main gear around to the front of the spar. Doing so puts my breaks in front of the wheels. I looked into flipping them around but will require re-drilling them. Is there a problem with leaving them in front of the wheels or should I bite the bullet and re-drill them and put them behind the wheels? 2-With the mains flipped around, now the metal mount which bolts to the spar is almost touching the fuselage and the other side is about 1/4" out. Is this a problem with balance of the bird? How far out from the fuselage should or can the gear be mounted? My thoughts are to move both mains out about 2" from the fuselage which would provide room for the root rib. 3-I have noticed too that the brake disk which bolts to the inside of the wheels wobbles causing it to scrape the bolt heads attaching everything to the leg. Any ideas? Bob in Frazeysburg Ohio _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://mylist.net/private/krnet/ to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
