BTW, I chose to make the new telescoping joint perpendicular to the leading edge of the pants for simplicity of construction's sake.

Then, I carefully ground down the root of the pants to make them center on the Robart struts properly when they were tightly screwed onto the wing. The wheel fairing was then fastened to the wheel axle with 6-32 screws and nylon spacers carefully fitted and cut to length so as not to put twisting forces on the pants that would cause misalignment when the cutout area was removed from the pants. The plywood inserts that will be the base contact points for the fastening of the Robart struts to the wheel pants (originally glued in place for the stock wire stuts to bounce off) are not parallel to the strut forks, so the nylon spacers need to be slightly angled on one end to make stable footing.