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a.s.elliott(at)cox.net
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: Mounting wheel pants?

Gang:

  

 I am at the point to installing the inboard wheel pants hardware for the  new style 601XL wheel pants (5.00x5 tires).  It seems to me that the  attachment points do not offer a lot of support to the pants, which is backed up  by the (subjectively) wobbly pants I have seen on many XL's, and by the  comparatively massive inboard pant brackets used on the (bit faster) RV's.   

  

 I was considering riveting a horizontal arm to the .050 steel inboard  bracket, probably from 30mm wide x 0.090 aluminum, to place additional #10  nutplates 4" forward and aft of the axle.  There also would be .032  reinforcing plates, maybe 50 x 50 mm, riveted to the inside of the pants at  these points.

  

 Anyone done something like this already and can report on  effectiveness?

  

 Thanks,

 Andy Elliott, Mesa, AZ

N601GE (reserved)

601XL/TD/QB, Corvair,  building...

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notsew_evets(at)frontiern
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: Mounting wheel pants?

Hi Andy

  

 I thought the same when I installed my 601 XL  pants.  I didnt add a brace like you mentioned but did think about  it.  I would do it if I were doing it again.  The pants are extremely  thin and I wound up adding extra layers of fiberglass inside to make the pants  more ridged.

 Steve

 Bullhead City/Laughlin

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