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Vans didn?t drill? Aft spar center section

motodave

Well Known Member
While finishing up the center section of my 7 I was about to bolt everything up and noticed the hole for spacer bolt wasn?t drilled to size in the aft spar. Forward is correct.
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Anybody have this issue? About to bore it out but figured I should call Van?s before drilling.
 
I had the same problem on one side and actually had a rivet in the hole on the other side of the aft center section on mine.

Vans said to drill the rivet and enlarge the holes to correct size. So I drilled them under and reamed them to final size. Little nervous about drilling that big rivet but it was not an issue.
 
Agree, I drilled with my air tool, worked fine and moving on... would have preferred they did it right so I didn?t need to mess with that step.
 
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