Wayne's Wheel Pant Wizardry!!!

An absolutely fool-proof way to install wheels and wheel pants,

 and the easiest method I've found YET!!!!

Wayne Galligan, one of the "Team Aeroslave" fliers, and pattern friend, showed me this fool-proof and easy way to install wheel pants/wheels on fixed gear.

It's light, easy, and reliable.  NO more wheel collars, spacers, and fumbling trying to hold everything together while "test fitting"....

This method will work on ANY blade-type fixed gear where there's a flat that goes against the wheel pant.

A single 8-32 socket head bolt goes through the gear leg, the wheel pant, wheel, and indexes in a spacer inside the wheel pant to ensure alignment.  This is a real find, time-saver, and all-around great idea!

Thanks, WAYNE!!!

The diagram above should be self-explanatory....it's important that you get the width of the spacers correct, as they should barely clear the hub of the wheel, and the outboard one will control hub/wheel clearance against the edge of the wheelpant opening.  The inner hard spacer, of course, is THE critical part, as it contains the reversed tee-nut.  It too should be wide enough to barely clear the wheel hub, when it's glued against the reinforcement ply plate you install on the inside of the wheelpant.  USE EPOXY!!!! (And don't get any on the threads in the teenut)

You can easily see that when you insert the bolt from the gear leg side, it goes through the pant, ply doubler, hard spacer with teenut, wheel, then enters the outboard hard ply spacer (drilled just to clear the bolt threads).  The bolt must be long enough to go into the outboard spacer, but not too long to push against the outside of the wheel pant.

So this ONE bolt, is the axle, the alignment, and the wheel pant retainer, all in one!!!  What a GREAT tip, Wayne!!!! Many thanks!!!