I thought I was pretty much done with the pants for now. I had good tire clearance from the top but when I checked the sides the right pant seemed too close to the edges. Yes I had to go again. I rechecked the pant halves alignment as you see in the first picture. I was OK with the left pant but the right was really difficult to get on and put the screws in. The bracket had one fastener too close to the edge as well. I don’t quite know how I screwed that up but like most things in this build it can be fixed with more time and effort.

The next pic shows that I’m making an extra oversized bracket for the tight side. The left is fine. I also felt that the pant needed to be a touch higher where meant removing all the internal hardpoints and going again.

I did all that and made new hard points, glued them in and then reset the pants and made notches, drilled out the holes and then covered the re-trimmed hardpoints with a ply of BID. This is covered in previous posts. It was much easier this time but it was several days work again. After all that I wonder if it was only the way the pant sat and it was OK anyway as long as I set it up so the top of the pant was not allowed to sit too tall. I may have done all the extra work for nothing now I’ve noticed this. That issue was a function  of lightweight pants being quite flexible. Its made the whole job a LOT harder to save 2lbs of weight. Of course with the right pant reset I had to remake the tire cutouts, then add a bit of glass to one side as it was moved from the previous set up and on and on it went.

The screws are a bit easier to put in and the new bracket places the nut plates in the right spots so I am ahead, slightly.

Here we are again, rechecking the halves alignment

Making a new right bracket.

Yes I did the clean up and used alodine later

Gluing in new hardpoints. After these were matched to the bracket while the pants position was rechecked it was the process again of grinding them down to the minimum to save weight and a sealing ply of BID