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What exactly would I have to tinker with to widen the wheelbase of a certain little Gnat that insists on behaving like a bike when taxing at 4knots or more  

I know the Gnat, but not the answer! Soz....
Dan

I am not sure what a Gnat is but if it is a planes landing gear you can not alter them they are part of the model.

The Folland Gnat was used by the Red Arrows display team for several years. It's a fine little aircraft.

You can change the track of the main gear by tweaking the Lateral Position in Aircraft.cfg. This is defined under the [contact_points] header. Here's an example from the default Lear45. The entries in Bold type are the Lateral Position. Note that the corresponding point.0 entry is 0.00 as it's the nosewheel. point.1 & point.2 are usually the main gear.

[contact_points]
point.0=1, -11.17,   0.00, -4.42, 1181.1, 0, 0.6349, 46.8, 0.4197, 2.5, 0.5878, 10.0, 10.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0
point.1=1, -37.25,  -4.75, -4.92, 1574.8, 1, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4798, 2.5, 0.5456,  9.0,  9.0, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -37.25,   4.75, -4.92, 1574.8, 2, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4798, 2.5, 0.5456,  9.0,  9.0, 3, 0.0, 0.0

Right you are Haggar I thought he wanted to change the overal size or width of the gear.

thanks much  8)

got word over at CBFS that the designer is planing to update this particular model to 2k4 standards and that theres going to be a new build by somone else, which I may be involved in on a limited scale  8)