{"id":467,"date":"2013-05-19T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T01:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:30:25","slug":"fabricated-lower-cowl-hinge-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/05\/19\/fabricated-lower-cowl-hinge-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricated Lower Cowl Hinge Pin Retaining Clips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over how to retain the bottom hinge pins on the lower cowl. \u00a0I wanted something that didn&#8217;t require any tools to remove but also wasn&#8217;t visible externally. \u00a0I finally stumbled on a solution that I&#8217;m happy with. \u00a0I fabricated a couple of clips that are riveted to the bottom flange of the firewall. \u00a0They started as 1\/8&#8243; thick flat stock that I filed to about half thickness where it rivets to the firewall flange. \u00a0It&#8217;s full thickness where the pin latches for added strength and bearing surface.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130519\/IMG_0833.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0833.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I then bent a couple of pins into this shape.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130519\/IMG_0834.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0834.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the pin clips into place. \u00a0The lower part of the pin is hidden just inside the cowl exit, but it can easily be reached and released. \u00a0Since the notch is below the line of the hinge eyelets, you just have to flex the lower end outward and pivot it forward to release.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130519\/IMG_0835.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0835.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over how to retain the bottom hinge pins on the lower cowl. \u00a0I wanted something that didn&#8217;t require any tools to remove but also wasn&#8217;t visible externally. \u00a0I finally stumbled on a solution that I&#8217;m happy with. \u00a0I fabricated a couple of clips that are riveted to the bottom flange of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/05\/19\/fabricated-lower-cowl-hinge-pi\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}