{"id":773,"date":"2011-07-07T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-08T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T08:03:35","slug":"repacked-left-wheel-bearing-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/07\/07\/repacked-left-wheel-bearing-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Repacked Left Wheel Bearing and Started Right Axle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I removed the bearings from the left wheel and completely cleaned the old AeroShell 33MS grease out and then repacked them with AeroShell 22. \u00a0I then reassembled everything and reinstalled the wheel and axle nut. \u00a0I installed the cotter pin, but haven&#8217;t bent it over yet. \u00a0I&#8217;ll leave it straight until I know for sure that I don&#8217;t need to remove the wheel before the first flight.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110707\/IMG_9557.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9557.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With the left wheel done, I jacked up the right side of the plane and drilled the right gear leg. \u00a0I then modified the right axle nut for the wheel pant bracket.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110707\/IMG_9558.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9558.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closeup of the notch that you have to file into the axle nut. \u00a0You can see that you have to radius the edge because of the bend in the bracket. \u00a0This took about 15 minutes of filing to get to this point.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110707\/IMG_9560.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9560.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I removed the bearings from the left wheel and completely cleaned the old AeroShell 33MS grease out and then repacked them with AeroShell 22. \u00a0I then reassembled everything and reinstalled the wheel and axle nut. \u00a0I installed the cotter pin, but haven&#8217;t bent it over yet. \u00a0I&#8217;ll leave it straight until I know for sure &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/07\/07\/repacked-left-wheel-bearing-an\/\" 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}