SDCrashmaster
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Not sure without seeing exactly where you have positioned your tiller arm.
It appears you're only contacting the aft circumference of the strut. It may be possible to remove a upper rear section of my upper detail sleeve to facilitate using that tiller arm.
Overall shortening the sleeve to only go up to the tiller arm would not look good at all. It's already marginal from a scale "ground level" angle (as far as the detail dissapearing up into the well).
Might not be as noticeable if the front of the detail work was still there.
The upper detail tube must slide down from the top during assembly (along with the uppermost retaining ring with set screw), so the tiller arm would have to remain detached until the last step.
The reason it all has to slide from the top down is because the struts very lower end is painted, and that paint thickness will not allow any of the components to slide on from the bottom.
The tolerances are so tight that even the smallest deformations to the strut from set screws, burring from the retainer rings set screw bores, etc. immediately inhibit the free movement of the components up and down the shaft. This is such a probelm that I have lately been painting the nose strut and detail fully assembled.
Can you post a pic of the arm area close up, in relation to the two set screws it the top aft end of the strut? Does your strut rotate 180˚ in the trunion, or are you still utilizing the stock tillers as an anti-rotation device?
The further I look at your pics, I'd say that the detail going up only as far as the base of your tiller appears the only solution.
Long windidly yours  ,
Paul
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