I've done this for different reasons - I bought a set of diehl mains
used from someone on this site, and they were taildragger legs, but I'm
doing a tri-gear plane.
I put the gear on the back of the spar, but I am now grappling with the
tire-alignment issue
The gear I got was pre-drilled,
At 01:40 PM 8/20/2014, you wrote:
>My plan is to swap the left and right gear legs and flip them to get
>the wheel alignment back to 0 toe in. Hopefully the bolt holes will
>line up. If the bolt holes don't line up or cannot get the required
>wheel location, then will have to get a new set of
Now we are getting somewhere. After reading Larry's message regarding gear
location, I took a long hard look at the gear location and Diehl gear leg
attachment at the main spar. The axles are at 4-1/4 inches from the aft
face of the main spar on my KR-2. Compare that to 7 inches for Joe Horto
> Lawrence Bell wrote:
>
> Sid has his main axle distance 17" aft of the stub wing leading edge, Joe
> has his 7" aft of the forward face of the main spar.
What Joe Horton wrote is that his axle center line is 7" behind the AFT face or
back side of his main carry through spar. Not the forwar
t; >
> > Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S?4.
> >
> > Original message From:
> "joe.kr2s.builder--- via KRnet"
> Date:08/13/2014 9:40 PM (GMT-06:00) To:
> smwood at md.metrocast.net Cc: krnet at list.krnet.org
> S
Sid,I just happen to have measured my locations for mains and nose wheel the
other night to compare to the new project. N357CJ main axle center line is 7"
behind the main spar and the nose wheel axle is 10" in front of the firewall. I
agree that the actual dimension is not in the instructions bu
et Cc: krnet at
list.krnet.org Subject: KR> Main gear locations
Sid,I just happen to have measured my locations for mains and nose wheel
the other night to compare to the new project. N357CJ main axle center line is
7" behind the main spar and the nose wheel axle is 10" in front of
> (GMT-06:00) To: smwood at md.metrocast.net Cc: krnet at
> list.krnet.org Subject: KR> Main gear locations
> Sid,I just happen to have measured my locations for mains and nose
> wheel the other night to compare to the new project. N357CJ main axle center
> line is 7" behind the mai
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