The
fit between the front and back half of the wheel pants wasn't very good.
We put plastic wrap on the front and mixed up some micro/epoxy for the back
half. After sanding down the interface, it was a very nice fit. The
next step is to paint/fill any pinholes.
After
sanding down the surface as smooth as we could, primed with S30 and let dry.
The primer does a great job of filling any pinholes or scratches. After
sanding down the paint, the little scratches you see (to the right) are actually places where the primer
has filled an existing scratch in the surface.
The
front of the nose wheel fairing originally would not fit over the base of the
axel for the wheel. During initial fit-up, we had to cut a hole in the
fiberglass. To fix this, we decided to move the front of the fairing
forward. The first step was to thin the rear piece and remove the gel
coating.
Then
we applied long strips of glass and set it up to cure in place.
