Pat Shows wrote: >>I am still going over a project that I purchased last year, taking things >>out that don't suit me and such. So now I have a couple of questions. >>The wheel attached to the landing gear main has four bolts with fiber lock >>nuts, is this acceptable? There is carter pin hole in the bolt, nor >>safety wire hole in the nut. Next, how do you clean the journals of the >>crank after nitriding? I don't have a lathe so can't mount it and polish >>that way.<<
My axles are also attached with nylocs, and they haven't fallen off yet after close to 2000 crappy landings. It should be easy enough to buy a castellated nut and drill a matching hole for a cotter pin for the axle nut. I used a strip of gray Scotchbrite Ultra Fine pad to see-saw a nice finish on my nitrided crank in just a few minutes. You need to clean it thoroughly afterwards to get the abrasive off of it by doing something like a rifle brush through the oil holes in a vat of kerosense or diesel fuel. I think I showed something like that at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/corvair/95hp/270hrs/ ... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
