Landing Gear & Brakes

This section will show the landing gear including float mounts and brakes.  The float attach kit is made for the BH  so I needed to do a fair bit of cutting and grinding to make them work.  If you order a kit before it gets made the factory can weld these on for you.

I made the two aeroquip brake lines up that go from the bottom of the brake cylinders to the bulkhead former, then ran two stainless braided lines that I already had, from the former to the fittings at the top of the gear legs.  I had seen a set up using Nylaflow tubing to go from firewall to the upper connection of the brake master and decided to try that as I  had not done that before, but I think I will replace them with aeroquip lines. There is allot of movement there and I just don’t feel comfortable with those plastic lines.  I also welded on two tabs for connecting the aeroquip lines to the tubing as any clamps would not let the floor sit flush.

Aluminum line to caliper.

Stainless braided line, there will be a small amount of movement here.

Doubler for brake lines.

Two welded on tabs for line attach.

Overview of brake system.

Making up aeroqiup 303 hoses.

Welded to fuselage. The cable and fairlead were not there when I welded!

Getting ready to weld.

Ready to go on fuselage.

Parts welded.

Cutting and grinding to fit.

Float attach parts put together with spacers to give the proper width. I haven’t ground any material away yet.

Drilling the holes, you have to hold the vice grips obviously.

Small drill guide to locate centre for caliper mount. Downsizing to 1/4 in bolts so I also made spacers to go in the 3/8 holes.

Spring assemblies installed with snap rings set in place. Check nuts and oil to come.

Spring assembly compressed (use spacer and bolt seen at top) so you can install snap ring when put in strut.

Gear strut components.

Brian’s first sit in the plane!

Gear attached, this is the first thing I did on the fuselage so I could easily move it around the shop.