Brief Description: Gear towers and forward floor boards
I had been dreading this day for sometime, but it was finally time to fix a mistake I had made regarding the riveting sequence of the gear towers to the fwd floor panel (floorboard). The plans illustrated a row of rivets that should not be riveted until later when in fact the P/N described was different from the illustration - not wrong, but confusing. Riveting the fwd side of the gear towers F802G vs the F802H rendered the fwd bottom skins impossible to install (couldn't buck the rivets). So my buddy Greg Schroeder and Joe Marconi (both Sportman 2+2 builders) came over to lend a hand. We discussed the options (none) and got to work removing the gear tower rivets (8 total - thats the good news) carefully and then installing the F850 fwd bottom skin per the plans. Once the skin was installed (at least the rivets that required the gear tower fwd rivets to be free), we reinstalled the -4 rivets in the front and rear gear tower attach angles (F802G/F802H) - 16 rivets in all. It all turned out very well thanks to my buds coming over to help -thanks guys!! PS I spent the first 1:30 organizing the garage before the guys came over so we could flip the fuse upside down to facilitate riveting the bottom skins.
This is the rivets that I had to drill out and then re-shoot to gain acces to the rivets pictured next
