Hi,
I recently acquired a flying RV-8 and need rear rudder pedals for transition training. I've got a rear pedal kit and the install seems straight forward except for one thing: The outboard bolts that attach each idler bracket (F-8118-L/R) to F-802H-L/R (sorry, I don't know the name for this, but it's the weldment at the base of each gear tower in the forward cockpit) on drawing OP-5 is impossible to reach! I can't get a wrench/socket/gripping tool on the nut inside the tower. Besides being way down in the worst case corner, each target nut is flanked by nuts that enter perpendicularly, for instance, that block access from most directions. Further in the left tower the fuel lines make it look impossible, which made me laugh after sweating on the right tower then deciding to see if the left would be easier.
After spending an embarrassing number of hours playing contortionist, I've spent a similar amount of time searching the forums here. Though I've read every post I could find on the matter, I only found one other person mention this challenge (and they concluded "IMPOSSIBLE") in a thread about modifying the gear tower with access covers.
Can any of you folks school me in the wizardry involved in removing/replacing said nuts? Or, is the only solution modifying the gear tower by cutting larger access holes, etc.? Or is there something else entirely people do, like fashion a different idler bracket? (Or, Did I miss the magic thread?)
Thanks! By the way, after reading through the forum, this has to be one of the most genteel spots on the internet...pretty refreshing!
R/Tony
I recently acquired a flying RV-8 and need rear rudder pedals for transition training. I've got a rear pedal kit and the install seems straight forward except for one thing: The outboard bolts that attach each idler bracket (F-8118-L/R) to F-802H-L/R (sorry, I don't know the name for this, but it's the weldment at the base of each gear tower in the forward cockpit) on drawing OP-5 is impossible to reach! I can't get a wrench/socket/gripping tool on the nut inside the tower. Besides being way down in the worst case corner, each target nut is flanked by nuts that enter perpendicularly, for instance, that block access from most directions. Further in the left tower the fuel lines make it look impossible, which made me laugh after sweating on the right tower then deciding to see if the left would be easier.
After spending an embarrassing number of hours playing contortionist, I've spent a similar amount of time searching the forums here. Though I've read every post I could find on the matter, I only found one other person mention this challenge (and they concluded "IMPOSSIBLE") in a thread about modifying the gear tower with access covers.
Can any of you folks school me in the wizardry involved in removing/replacing said nuts? Or, is the only solution modifying the gear tower by cutting larger access holes, etc.? Or is there something else entirely people do, like fashion a different idler bracket? (Or, Did I miss the magic thread?)
Thanks! By the way, after reading through the forum, this has to be one of the most genteel spots on the internet...pretty refreshing!
R/Tony