RV Gear Mod

I am adding this page to show what I would like to do with with my Pitts when money and time become available. Maybe during my next Conditional inspection.

Update 26Feb2008

I ordered my RV-3 Gear Legs and brackets from Vans here is a list and part number if you wish to do this mod:

U-301 RV-3 Gear leg (Use RV-4 Gear Legs for heavier Pitts) Qty 2

U-405 Axle Spacer Qty 4

U-403 Brake Flange Qty 2

VA-106 Axle Nut Qty 2

Vans Gear leg Fairings

Total Cost before shipping was $741.00 not to bad for new spring gear

If you add in the Vans wheel pants (which I already have) it will add $260 to that but that is still reasonable. Speaking Grove landing gear is $1100 just for gear then you need to buy axles. OBTW the Vans Wheel pant kit comes with everything you will need to install the pants brackets, rivits, anchor nuts screws, spacers bolts ect.

The trick to ordering through Vans is to call them and place a parts order have the part numbers handy and you won’t have to much trouble ordering. Now if you let them know you’re using this parts for a Pitts or something other than an RV they will deny you the order.

Ok So I’ve pondered on the gear sockets for a week now and have come up with a drawing that matches the RV and Ultimate 10-300 set up attached click the link gear-leg-socket.pdf for the PDF drawing I cooked up in Solidworks 2o04.   I also added 3 more pictures of the Ultimate 10-300 drawings that confirm my socket design.

For a photo tour of how I did this click here on this link http://picasaweb.google.com/acropilotbret/RVGearMod#

For the log of comments just click on the link in the right side box just over there – - ->

Here are some photos of how other did it…