All... I need an opinion about filling some holes in the spars and firewall..
The landing gear is a spring bar made out of about .75 Al. The spring bar mounts to the spar using an "L" bracket made out of 3/4 AL. This L bracket is mounted to the back of the spar with 6 .25 AN bolts. I would like to know if anyone would see a problem with pulling the bolts out filling the hole with .25 dowel and gluing it in with some type of epoxy. I want to mount the landing gear a little firther in so that the gear does not extend out past the wing stubbs. This will also allow me to mount the gear onto the front of the spar getting rid of some unnecessary weight of the nose gear and all the supporting hardware.. I figure about 20lbs all tole, and turning it into a taildragger. The engine I bought came with a motor mount that came off of a KR2.. but the bolt paterns that are existing on the plane does not match up wiht that of the mount. The holes on the plane are just about to the main longarons, the mount pn the engine is at the stock locations. My options are this... rebuild a new motor mount to match that of my airframe or fill the holes as I would the spars ... and redrill to match the new motor mount. thank you in advance, -Jeff
