After more than two months away from the project, I am finally back.
I had to go to Dallas, Texas back in may for three weeks, for practical maintenance training on the Phenom 300. Then just after returning, I had to go for maintenance training on Spitfires in the UK, which was AWESOME!!! 😀
After that we spent 3 weeks of holiday at Samsø, a lovely island here in Denmark.

Back in the shop, I have been working on the wheel fairings and leg fairings.
I had previously sanded the wheel fairing halves, for a better fit. I marked the fastener locations, and drilled holes for cleco’s.

I then measured and cut the openings for the main gear leg. I have added a 1 inch spacer on top of the tire, as per the plans.

To properly align the wheel fairings, I had to level the plane, then hang a plumb bob to mark the center line in both ends of the plane.
Then I taped a string between these marks for reference.

The outboard wheel fairing brackets didn’t sit flush against the wheel fairings, so I had to add some extra fiberglass to these areas.

After carefully aligning the wheel fairings, I drilled the fastener holes.

I then removed the landing gear leg and fairing assembles, to trace the wheel dimension to the wheel fairings. I decided for a half inch clearance.

After trimming…

I then removed the wheel fairing brackets and prepared them for primer.

After priming, I riveted on the nutplates.

For the outboard brackets, I mixed som epoxy with cotton fibres, and glued them in place.

After the epoxy had cured, I removed the cleco’s, countersunk and riveted them.

I reinstalled the brackets…

…and could then continue installing the landing gear leg fairing.

They are fixed to the legs at the top, using stainless steel clamp. Unfortunately I realized to late, that I had installed them facing forward.
The brake lines on the RV-7 are supposed to run on the forward side of the legs, so I will have to close these holes and reinstall them facing aft.

Last thing I did, was to add 4 layers of epoxy to the mounting spots inside the wheel fairings. The walls are pretty thin here, and will not support the fairings sufficient.