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Tech Notes
Aeronca K Wheel Pants

Technical Notes (Contributed by Tom Trainor on 1/4/00)

Suggested Procedure For Mounting Aeronca K Wheel Pants Made By Harbor Products.
Assumption:    All metal parts are primed and painted ready for final assembly.
                            Both tires are inflated to the exact same pressure.

1. Trim the wheel pant inner opening to the inner line on the reinforcement drawing 2- 110. making sure that the centerline lines of axle on the drawing line up with the center of axle mark on the wheel pant.
2. Drill a 3/8” hole at the center line of axle mark on the out board side of the wheel pant, and punch or drill a 3/8” hole in the center of the outer reinforcement drawing 1- 523.
3. Attach the reinforcement to the inside of the wheel pant with four 1/8” pop rivets.
4. Remove either side wheel and the brake assembly.
5. Slide the inner support bracket on the axle and clamp to the landing gear brake mounting plate with the horizontal center line of the support bracket parallel to the floor.
6. Scribe the landing gear brake mounting hole locations onto the support bracket. Unclamp and drill the holes you scribed.
7. Place the support bracket on the axle and then the brake assembly using the next longest length bolt to attach, and cotter key, then reattach the brake cable.
8. Slide the outer wheel pant support into the axle and remount the wheel with the wheel nut adjusted to the best cotter key hole location.
9. Slip the still unpainted wheel pant over the wheel and bolt the pant finger tight to the out board wheel support.
10. Adjust the pant to look good in position that appeals to you. ( Some think it looks best in tail low position. Others in the tail high flying position, still others make a compromise)
11. Clamp the pant to the inner support bracket and with a stubby sharp pencil or scriber and mark the front inner support bracket holes on the inside of the pant. Then scribe a mark on the outer support where it comes out of the end of the axle.
12. Remove the bolt from the outer support and remove the clamps from the inner support and lift of wheel pant.
13. Observe location of wheel nut and mark its location so that it can be screwed back on in the exact same place with the wheel off.
14. Drill two 1/4” holes in the pants where you have marked them.
15. With the wheel still off, put the axle nut back on to the position you had marked and make sure the cotter key lines up.
16. Slide the wheel pant outside support back in the axle to the mark you scribed on it. With a drill the size of the cotter key hole drill through the nut cotter key hole into the outer support enough to mark the spot were the hole should be and remove the wheel pant outer support.
17. Very carefully drill the hole for the cotter key to go straight through both sides of  the outer support.
18. With wheel off, put the nut and outer support back in the axle and put the wheel pant back on.
19. Bolt the pant in place finger tight using the three bolt locations you have now established, and reach inside to mark or scribe the last two holes of the inner support onto the inside of the wheel pant.
20. Remove wheel pant and match drill these last two holes 1/4" at the locations you just marked.
21. Clamp the inside reinforcement to the inside support with the four holes in the support bracket as near the locations that is shown on the reinforcement drawing.   Scribe the holes onto the reinforcement.  Outline on the reinformcement where it comes in contact with the support surface.  This outline will be used to help avoid drilling rivet holes into the reinforcement where the support bracket is located. Unclamp and drill the four holes into the reinforcement.
22. Transfer the outline you just made to the other side of the reinforcement so we can see the outline.  Clamp the reinformcement it to the inside of the wheel pant while making sure the four mounting holes line up perfectly.  Drill the 1/8" rivet holes  (pop rivet as each hole is drilled) for attaching it to the inside of the wheel pant making sure that you don't drill any holes in the areas that you just outlined as being in contact with the inside support.
23. Put wheel back on and install the wheel pant, and measure the distance from the pant to the floor in both the front and back of the pant, so you can be sure both sides will be are alike.
    

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