The method of installing the hinge to the gear leg fairing leaves a lot to be desired. The instructions I had said to mark a centerline on the hinge and mark rivet holes and then clamp it into place and drill at the appointed locations. But the grey gelcoat prevents that from working.
Van's sent me updated instructions that said to transfer the center line to the fairing itself, then mark the rivet locations, then drill the holes, THEN clamp the hinge in place.
That's a better method but still difficult. It's hard to clamp the hinge, for one thing.
I got it done but it's nowhere near as good as I want. Center line? Ha!
In the end, the hinge didn't seat properly in the "V" of the gear leg fairing. I haven't riveted it on yet, but I'm also surprised that Van's is using an AN3-3.5 squeezed rivet instead of pop rivets here. Seems like getting a squeezer on it is problematic and threatens to distort the hinge.
We'll see.