If 4 grove gear

[Av8r3400]

Mine is a tri gear and the brake fittings are on the front.

Yes. Good point, tri versus tail dragger...

[metalman]

There's a 4 at Yarram with the Grove gear. Come on over and have a look if you want. I think you may have been at Mt Beauty but I didn't put a connection to your aircraft. The KF 4 was there also....cheers..

I'll have to get up there and say g'day , I met up with some Kitfox guys at Benalla on the way home that day , I was up at Mt beauty on the Sunday morning, got there just after the Rans plowed into the c182 .
Had a good look over Ross's ss7 ,bloody nice plane!
Cheers Matty

[jrevens]

I'm pretty sure that the gear is designed with the fittings on the front, conventional or tricycle gear - at least with the Series 7 SS. I believe that's the way they do it at the factory too. Am I wrong?

[metalman]

I'm pretty sure that the gear is designed with the fittings on the front, conventional or tricycle gear - at least with the Series 7 SS. I believe that's the way they do it at the factory too. Am I wrong?

Is there any toe in, toe out on the grove gear?

[Av8r3400]

The gear is manufactured straight with no toe in or out. They offer shims if needed to adjust this.

On my model IV (Which is what you have there, right?) the ports are meant to face the rear to give clearance to the radiator and I believe to clear the bungee truss. In a tricycle configuration or other models this may be different. I can't speak to those.

[PapuaPilot]

I checked for toe-in/out on my KF 5 recently and the Grove gear was perfectly straight.

[Floog]

Me and Jim and Scott all built our Model 7's with the fittings facing forward according to the manual I think. Chime in Jim. It seems to make more sense to have them face aft out of the slip stream. I wonder why it's like that?? (My plane is 150 miles away, so I can't go look at it.)

[Floog]

Incidentally, they're all conventional configuration.

[Monocock]

I once had a Mk5 without gun drilled gear, and the brake line was at the rear.

So, it sounds like taildraggers have it to the rear, and training wheel ones have it to the front.

[metalman]

The grove fitting kit has them at the rear

http://www.groveaircraft.com/images/...stallation.pdf

The airframe I've got is called a Skyfox, basically a Kitfox4 copy, but without the landing gear brackets to fit grove gear to , I'm thinking it may be easier to mount the gear with some bolts vertically through the underside of the fuse,