{"id":1070,"date":"2010-01-18T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T17:14:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-04T05:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:40:28","slug":"drilled-brake-pedals-and-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/01\/18\/drilled-brake-pedals-and-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilled Brake Pedals and Mounted Rudder Pedals"},"content":{"rendered":"

I drilled the mounting holes and cut the center rudder support block in half.<\/p>\n

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Next, I mounted an AN3 bolt in the drill press and filed a point in the tip so that I could mark for the hole in the brake pedals.<\/p>\n

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The bolt slips through the bottom flange of the master cylinder and is used to scratch a mark in the side bar of the brake pedal.<\/p>\n

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Then it is a simple matter of finding the center of the hole and drilling for an AN3 bolt.<\/p>\n

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Then a few washers are used to space the master cylinders away from the brake pedal side bars. \u00a0I’m not mounting these permanently now, but I slipped the bolts in to make sure everything moves smoothly with no binding.<\/p>\n

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Next, I marked for three mounting positions for the rudder pedals. \u00a0The plans specify that the support blocks be no closer than 3″ aft of the firewall. \u00a0Since I’m tall (6′ 4″), I wanted the option of having the rudder pedals as far forward as possible. \u00a0I put marks at 3″, 4 1\/16″, and 5 1\/8″ which is the dimensions that Dan Checkoway came up with and many have copied.<\/p>\n

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Here are the holes drilled in the left skin stiffener. \u00a0I then repeated the process of the right side.<\/p>\n

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I then mounted the rudder pedals in the plane in preparation for drilling the center support. \u00a0It’s late, so this is a good place to stop.<\/p>\n

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I drilled the mounting holes and cut the center rudder support block in half. Next, I mounted an AN3 bolt in the drill press and filed a point in the tip so that I could mark for the hole in the brake pedals. The bolt slips through the bottom flange of the master cylinder and … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}