We've been discussing the Skybolt prop clearance. Obviously there are a few details that affect clearance. The landing gear is certainly one of those details. Look closely at your gear and the gear in the pictures of an unaltered ARF. I've seen 4 of the ARFs so far and every one of them sported the gear as shown in the pictures of the unaltered ARF.

It's clear that you fitted your landing gear with spring/piano wire, but it also looks very much like either you bent it as well, or your ARF came with taller gear. No wonder there is confusion over the clearance.

Thanks for your picture. It fills in the details about your advice. BTW, your first picture of that Skybolt in the grass seems to show a Skybolt with wheel pants and the stock gear legs. Your last picture shows the modified gear without the pants.

I wish one of us had had the time to include pictures early on in this thread and it would have been a shorter, better thread.