Wing mounts

[chucknorris]

Can anyone enlighten me with regards the rear wing supports/pylons. I've got hold of a second hand wing that has never been fitted (from the classifieds), it's an older one from a few years back and not from the current supplier that the factory uses.
I've put the small rose joints in the wing, but when I offer up the pylons the holes in the pylons are 3mm out compared to the rose joints and there's just no way of making them fit. Has anyone else had this issue or got any thoughts as to why the holes don't line up?

Pete

[ultimichael]

Pete,

I also have an older wing and the threaded inserts are heavily out of line.
It came with a set of bent rose joints to meet the holes in the pylons.
When I replaced the rose joints I had to bent them again to mount the wing.
Seems to be poor quality from the wing manufacturer.

Thought about replacing the inserts in the wing but not sure if possible and how to do it.

Michael

[chucknorris]

Michael, thanks for clearing that up for me, i have new straight rose joints as there were none with the wing, I wondered if they should be bent then thought surely not!
Anyway, It's not a huge issue as I've made a set of solid carbon pylons which I can drill to fit straight rose joints, but i was hoping to make the carbon and alloy interchangeable... Maybe I'll just buy a set of "bent" rose joints especially for the alloy pylons

[krider]

Pete

I had a similar experience in my recent build where the threaded inserts were a full 6mm (ie a whole bolt width) out of line.
For a component costing about 1500 pounds I thought this was pretty pathetic, but I dealt with it by bogging up the holes with body filler and installing nutserts, which worked very well.

(I'm assuming that because the force is downwards that these components are't subject to much stress.)

Regards,
Peter