REFLECTOR: Replacing Front gear bushings

[Scott Derrick]

Rene,

I replaced mine over a year ago. Its a big improvement on the beefy'ness 
of the assembly. I installed mine with the rectangle oriented 
vertically, no room for horizontal orientation in a Std. Heat will allow 
you to easily remove the old bushings. Well easy is a relative term! :-)

My method:

I aligned mine by inserting new bushing with wet flox between bushing, 
plate and keel, don't attach plate with bolts yet, just clamp, then 
install nose gear strut sans the nose wheel, do not attach to actuator 
either, align the strut, tighten clamp on plates to the keel so they are 
tightly flush to each other. Verify strut alignment, and rotate through 
entire range to verify alignment during and after clamping. Let set. 
Then drill and install the 4 bolts that go through the plate and keel. 
Use a slow setting epoxy, so you have time to do all this.

You absolutely will have to remove the canard to do this.

Scott

Rene Dugas wrote:
>
> /The factory folks are at Sun and Fun so I thought I’d ask. I am 
> replacing my front gear bushings with the newer reinforced bushings. 
> Are they inserted from inside the keel or from the cockpit side? The 
> elongated rectangle reinforced plate goes horizontally or vertically? 
> How does one get the old ones out with minimal peripheral damage? Heat 
> or creative drilling? Alignment technique for glassing?/
>
> /Any help would be appreciated. I prefer not to remove the canard 
> unless necessary./
>
> /Rene’/
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