{"id":1150,"date":"2015-12-30T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2015-12-30T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:26:08","slug":"nose-gear-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Nose Gear Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought a stainless hex head bolt the same length as the one specified with\u00a0the Matco axle kit and drilled the nose gear to accept the bolt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1141\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-25-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-25-700x525.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-25-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-25-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bolt head was not quite as tall as the thickness of the nose gear bracket and because we needed to keep a decent amount of material left on the bracket I ground down the bolt head.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1142\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-26-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-26-700x525.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-26-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-26-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two make a nice flush fit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1143\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-27-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-27-700x525.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-27-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-27-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wheel pant bracket will keep the bolt retained but I&#8217;ll still add some locktite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1146\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-30-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-30-700x525.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-30-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-30-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought a stainless hex head bolt the same length as the one specified with\u00a0the Matco axle kit and drilled the nose gear to accept the bolt. The bolt head was not quite as tall as the thickness of the nose gear bracket and because we needed to keep a decent amount of material left on <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1150' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}