{"id":690,"date":"2015-06-20T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=690"},"modified":"2015-06-20T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T00:22:30","slug":"gear-leg-weldments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Gear Leg Weldments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect the prior builder drilled the gear legs to the weldments with a 5\/16&#8243; drill bit instead of drilling and reaming with a .311 reamer. \u00a0When a #5 bolt was placed in the holes it just dropped in with no effort. \u00a0I ordered a set of 1\/64&#8243; oversized bolts for the gear legs, including nosegear, and a .3261 reamer from Genuine Aircraft Hardware. \u00a0We reamed the gear legs and weldments in place with lots of boelube. \u00a0Here is what we ordered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image34.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-685\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image34-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image34-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image34-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-682\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image31-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image31-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image31-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pops and I managed to get the gear leg weldments installed. \u00a0All the bolts went in just fine and are torqued. \u00a0You must torque the bolts attaching the weldment to the spar from the bolt head so make sure you follow the guidelines for doing so in the plans. \u00a0This pic shows them with the bolts before tightening and torquing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image35.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image35-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image35-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image35-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect the prior builder drilled the gear legs to the weldments with a 5\/16&#8243; drill bit instead of drilling and reaming with a .311 reamer. \u00a0When a #5 bolt was placed in the holes it just dropped in with no effort. \u00a0I ordered a set of 1\/64&#8243; oversized bolts for the gear legs, including <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=690' 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":[8,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}