{"id":2758,"date":"2009-10-21T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2015-02-06T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:27:32","slug":"7-7-1-main-gear-leg-upstops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/7-7-1-main-gear-leg-upstops\/","title":{"rendered":"7.7.1 Main Gear Leg UpStops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"31\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 30 of 39 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/07-landing-gear\/\">07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Next comes the main gear legs. Here&#8217;s the left side main gear leg in the &#8220;down and locked&#8221; position. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-11-0622-DSC_0363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-11-0622-DSC_0363-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-10-11 0622 DSC_0363\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">And here is the leg in the retracted position<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-21-0812-IMG_9451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-21-0812-IMG_9451-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-10-21 0812 IMG_9451\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nThe first thing I need to do is define the exact &#8220;up&#8221; position. So I put a 1\/4&#8243; piece of wood between the tire and the wheel well. Then I need to make that position permanent. The channel (or tunnel) that the gear leg sits in is supposed to be just a quarter inch above the leg. I say supposed to because mine is about 2 1\/2&#8243; (that will cost me a couple gallons of fuel). So I made a spacer out of leftover stock and glassed it in place. Then I wrapped a couple layers of duct tape on the gear leg, put a UNI\/epoxy\/cabo fill on top of the spacer and pushed the gear against the wood spacer. Let it set up over night and now I&#8217;ve got an &#8220;up stop&#8221;. I&#8217;ll clean this up later.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/pictures\/2009\/IMG_9450.JPG\"> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-21-0725-IMG_9450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-10-21-0725-IMG_9450-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-10-21 0725 IMG_9450\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This gets done to both sides.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"31\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 30 of 39 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/07-landing-gear\/\">07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Next comes the main gear legs. Here&#8217;s the left side main gear leg in the &#8220;down and locked&#8221; position. And here is the leg in the retracted position The first thing I need to do is define the exact &#8220;up&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/7-7-1-main-gear-leg-upstops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"series":[31],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","series-07-landing-gear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}