If 4 grove gear

[Monocock]

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BEFORE ANYONE SAYS, WE QUICKLY REALISED THESE WERE OFFERED UP THE WRONG WAY ROUND!!!






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Do go for the gun drilled option. It really tidies it all up nicely.

[Monocock]

You'll find this useful. It shows where the brackets attach.

I found that there was a fair bit of filing (2mm in places) that needed to be done to the new gear lugs to neatly fit in the fuselage brackets. This wasn't a Grove issue, as their product is beatifully built. It was a 20 year old Kitfox jig issue I think!


http://www.groveaircraft.com/kitfoxinstallation.html

If you're in any doubt as to to whether to fit it, don't have doubts. It transforms the aeroplane.

[metalman]

Thanks guys ,very helpful , It'll be a bit more work for me .I'm fitting the gear to an Aussie variant of the Kf4 so it doesn't have the same gear brackets as the original . I've bought the gear second hand and it didn't come with all the bits , so I'm guessing I'll either have to weld on some brackets or mount it like the KF7 , and yep gun drilled ,very neat !

[metalman]

By the way ,how do you tell which way is forward?

[Dick B in KY]

Brake line fittings to the front.

Dick B

[chrisag]

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..

[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

[Av8r3400]

Brake line fittings to the front.

Dick B

Actually the fittings at the top of the gear are supposed to face the rear of the plane. The fittings at the wheel face down.

[mr bill]

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