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Walter,

Yes, you are making reference to my comments earlier this week on the angle of the wheels passing through the gear door opening, and the change of the opening needed due to shimming the axle.

One other warning comes to mind--you may want to search the archives for my other comments on axle bolts and shims being a safety issue which the factory has never addressed or even acknowledged:

Since the axles are shipped with the four bolt holes already drilled, I found that inserting shims with large angles of correction will bend the bolts and the bolts HEADS---duh!   I needed two shims for the caster and camber of about 2.8 degrees each.  In order to get the four bolts through the assembly, it was necessary to overdrill the bolt holes, resulting in elliptical bolt holes, AND, having seen the bolt heads BENT because of the shims changing the angle of the holes in the assembly, I had to make a special tool the relieve and correct  the contact area of the bolt head so it would not bend the head when the bolt was tightened.

I bitched to the factory to make undrilled or pilot drilled axles available so that the elliptical hole issue would be corrected, but, once more, they apparently didn't figure that putting a ton of  pressure on a 4' moment at 100 kts  with four bolts thru elliptical holes was a safety issue.

Such is life.

Anyway, the first fifty LIV's delivered had this major out of alignment problem, and if people simply redrilled the holes, I would suggest removing a bolt and looking at the bent bolt head.   Have a fresh set of underwear available, especially if you have been flying with your family in the plane.

David Jones, Pecatonica, Illinois   "Born at night, but not last night"

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