Installing the wheels
Yeah! I finally put the cowl away after installing the camlocs. I did paint the inside of the cowl with white high temp engine enamel in a hope to make it prettier and be able to see oil drips easier. Oh, yeah, I had also previously brushed a thinned layer of epoxy on the inside surface too.
Moving on to getting the wheels on the gear. I’ve already done some of the prep work that I could do without a bunch of hoisting. The wheels were assembled long ago and most of the parts identified. If you’ve been following along, I put the fuselage up on the gear legs just before hanging the engine. Each gear leg has been sitting on a small 1×6 wood block on the floor with no wheel components on them. This has made for a very stable platform that is about 6-7″ lower than if the wheels were on it. All good things, but now it is time to put the round turny things on.
The only problem is that it is kind of a precarious situation to lift one leg up 7+” to put the wheel on. It feels like the whole fuselage could roll forward and over. This is probably just paranoid builder syndrome, but I’m taking no chances. So, I’m going to go a little more slowly and get all three legs up on wood blocks incrementally, then install one wheel at a time.
