Nose Wheel Fairing

[NC Bill]

My wheel fairing has about an inch of play front to back. Looking up under the lower cowl area there doesn't appear to be anything attaching it. Just confirming that is normal. Just never noticed it before.

[Jim]

So does mine, since I got it.

[Tom Baker]

My wheel fairing has about an inch of play front to back. Looking up under the lower cowl area there doesn't appear to be anything attaching it. Just confirming that is normal. Just never noticed it before.

 

If you are talking about back and forth at the top rotating around the 2 attach screws it happens ,but is not correct. Inside the wheel pant there is a support off the back of the fork above the tire. There is a web in the wheel pant from side to side with a hole that goes over a pin on the support. There should be a rubber grommet in the web. The grommet is likely gone and the hole is worn some. My fix was to sandwich the web with 2 AN970-3 washers and put a plastic tube over the pin to tighten it up. I attached the washers with 2 3/32" rivets, but you could use 2 little machine screws. The other choice is to fiberglass the hole back shut and start over. Tom

[Runtoeat]

Hard washer mounting of the wheel pants such as Roger suggests is the way to go. I cup form the washers and file the edges smooth so they don't dig into the wheel pant with an inner an outer washer at each attachment. The subject of repairing the locator for the front strut wheel pant was discussed a while ago elsewhere on the forum but I don't recall where. Here's the repair done on my CT. The picture is take laying on the floor looking up into the fairing. It was done it this way so it wasn't necessary to remove the wheel pant and also because a washer couldn't be used like Tom did due to the web being too eaten away. 1/8" thick aluminum was used and a hole drilled the correct size to tightly fit the locator pin on the strut. The other way to repair this would be to remove the wheel pant and expoxy in a reinforcement. In time, the hole may open up in the aluminum. If so, I will then use the hose spacer to add time before the whole thing needs to be removed and new plate riveted in.