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mr.sun
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:58 am Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Hi folks,
I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual condition inspection on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg tube.
Thanks in advance.
Greg
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Greg,
There is an excellent tool from Avery just for this purpose. I use it and love it. You end up drilling a hole in the center of the wheel nut and installing a bracket over it to replace the rivenut for the wheel pants. It is an easy conversion, an inexpensive jack jig, and makes lifting a wheel and removing it quite safe and easy. Check it out here.
http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.aspx
I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection
http://www.averytools.com/p-180-rv-jack-stand-kit-bracket-kit.aspx
You can purchase all this as a kit.
Tim
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Greg Williams
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Gear Legs
Hi folks,
I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual condition inspection on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg tube.
Thanks in advance.
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yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Tim:
I'm having a hard time visualizing how you get the wheel off with the jack attached to the axle??? How does that work?
dave
On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
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Greg,
There is an excellent tool from Avery just for this purpose. I use it and love it. You end up drilling a hole in the center of the wheel nut and installing a bracket over it to replace the rivenut for the wheel pants. It is an easy conversion, an inexpensive jack jig, and makes lifting a wheel and removing it quite safe and easy. Check it out here.
http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.aspx
I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection
http://www.averytools.com/p-180-rv-jack-stand-kit-bracket-kit.aspx
You can purchase all this as a kit.
Tim
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com)] On Behalf Of Greg WilliamsSent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AMTo: rv-list(at)matronics.com (rv-list(at)matronics.com)Subject: Gear Legs
Hi folks,I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual condition inspection on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg tube. Thanks in advance.Greg01234
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:46 am Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
Reverse to re-install.
Tim
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Dave Cudney
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:32 PM
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Subject: Re: Gear Legs
Tim:
I'm having a hard time visualizing how you get the wheel off with the jack attached to the axle??? How does that work?
dave
On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.aspx
I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection size=2 width="100%" align=center>
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com)] On Behalf Of Greg Williams
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com (rv-list(at)matronics.com)
Subject: Gear Legs
Hi folks,
I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual condition inspection on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg tube.
Thanks in advance.
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lifeofreiley2003(at)yahoo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Hey Greg,
I've got a spare Avery jack and modified axle nut set
I'll sell to you. They are nice and work very well.
Total Price New $75.00,
I'll take $50.00
Darrell
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You can purchase all this as a kit.
Tim
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[mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Gear Legs
Hi folks,
I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual
condition inspection on my
recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a
GREAT time flying!!) I
want to change tires and was really nervous about
the wing jack when I
swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a
piece of pipe inside the
landing gear strut before removing the nut and jack
it up. Does anyone have
their gear leg out in the open and could give me a
measurement? Mine is all
wrapped up in wheel pants and tough to get to right
now. I think a 1" pipe
is about right but need to know the inside diameter
of the gear leg tube.
Thanks in advance.
Greg
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
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Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
Reverse to re-install.
Tim
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Thanks that makes sense.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Hey Folks,
Thanks for all the replies. I'm looking for the right size pipe to use. My thought is to weld a 16" piece of pipe to this old scissor jack that I already have. It came out of some import car and is in good shape. It will go low enough to slide the pipe in after the wheel pant and little bracket are removed. That way it is always in my hangar ready for use. I wouldn't ever worry about the pipe falling off the jack either. If a piece of 3/4" sch 40 water pipe (7/8" OD) will work, I'll grind off the galvanizing, weld it to the jack & slap some paint on it. If I can get something bigger in there, that's better.
Anyone know or can easily measure the ID of that gear leg axle for me?
Greg
On 10/22/07, Dave Cudney < yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net (yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net)> wrote:[quote]
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
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Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
Reverse to re-install.
Tim
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Thanks that makes sense.
dave
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n616tb(at)btsapps.com
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Hi Greg,
The hole in my axle nut based on the modification is 1” diameter. The shaft from the avery tool is ¾” diameter. I don’t have an axle nut off right now so not sure of the size hole into it. Hope that helps.
Tim
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Greg Williams
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:59 PM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Gear Legs
Hey Folks,
Thanks for all the replies. I'm looking for the right size pipe to use. My thought is to weld a 16" piece of pipe to this old scissor jack that I already have. It came out of some import car and is in good shape. It will go low enough to slide the pipe in after the wheel pant and little bracket are removed. That way it is always in my hangar ready for use. I wouldn't ever worry about the pipe falling off the jack either. If a piece of 3/4" sch 40 water pipe (7/8" OD) will work, I'll grind off the galvanizing, weld it to the jack & slap some paint on it. If I can get something bigger in there, that's better.
Anyone know or can easily measure the ID of that gear leg axle for me?
Greg
On 10/22/07, Dave Cudney < yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net (yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net)> wrote:
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
Reverse to re-install.
Tim
Thanks that makes sense.
dave
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com) [ mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com)] On Behalf Of Dave Cudney
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:32 PM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com (rv-list(at)matronics.com)
Subject: Re: Gear Legs
Tim:
I'm having a hard time visualizing how you get the wheel off with the jack attached to the axle??? How does that work?
dave
On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.aspx
I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection
size=2 width="100%" align=center>
From: owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com) [ mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com (owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com)] On Behalf Of Greg Williams
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
To: rv-list(at)matronics.com (rv-list(at)matronics.com)
Subject: Gear Legs
Hi folks,
I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual condition inspection on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg tube.
Thanks in advance.
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Doug Gray
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Axle ID on my -6 gear legs is 7/8".
Doug Gray
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Harbor Freight sells a 1500lb ATV/Motorcycle lift that will pick up the
whole airplane. I am using this on a Grumman Yankee (a.k.a. RV Trainer)
and it works great! I built a box to fit on the rails and topped it with
a piece of plywood and the pink hard foam from Home Depot. Just center
the lift under the CG and service all three wheels at once.
John Morgensen
RV-9A Fuselage plumbing
Grumman AA1B-150 (RV Trainer)
Greg Williams wrote:
| Quote: | Hey Folks,
Thanks for all the replies. I'm looking for the right size pipe to
use. My thought is to weld a 16" piece of pipe to this old scissor jack
that I already have. It came out of some import car and is in good
shape. It will go low enough to slide the pipe in after the wheel pant
and little bracket are removed. That way it is always in my hangar
ready for use. I wouldn't ever worry about the pipe falling off the
jack either. If a piece of 3/4" sch 40 water pipe (7/8" OD) will work,
I'll grind off the galvanizing, weld it to the jack & slap some paint on
it. If I can get something bigger in there, that's better.
Anyone know or can easily measure the ID of that gear leg axle for me?
Greg
On 10/22/07, *Dave Cudney* < yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net
<mailto:yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
> Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel
> pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle
> nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it
> onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack
> bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or
> something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to
> remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
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> Reverse to re-install.
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> Tim
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Thanks that makes sense.
dave
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> * Subject:* Re: Gear Legs
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> Tim:
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> I'm having a hard time visualizing how you get the wheel off with
> the jack attached to the axle??? How does that work?
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> On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
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> http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.aspx
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> I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
>
> http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
> Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection
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> size width="100%" align=center>
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> * From:* owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com
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> * Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
> * To:* rv-list(at)matronics.com <mailto:rv-list(at)matronics.com>
> * Subject:* Gear Legs
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> Hi folks,
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> I'm getting stuff ready to do my first annual condition inspection
> on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time
> flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the
> wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a
> piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the
> nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the
> open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in
> wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is
> about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg
> tube.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Greg
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Not a bad idea...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Can you do that to an RV without damaging the bottom of the fuse?
Sam Buchanan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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John,
Got any pics?
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Harbor Freight sells a 1500lb ATV/Motorcycle lift that will pick up the
whole airplane. I am using this on a Grumman Yankee (a.k.a. RV Trainer)
and it works great! I built a box to fit on the rails and topped it with
a piece of plywood and the pink hard foam from Home Depot. Just center
the lift under the CG and service all three wheels at once.
John Morgensen
RV-9A Fuselage plumbing
Grumman AA1B-150 (RV Trainer)
Greg Williams wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> Thanks for all the replies. I'm looking for the right size pipe to
> use. My thought is to weld a 16" piece of pipe to this old scissor jack
> that I already have. It came out of some import car and is in good
> shape. It will go low enough to slide the pipe in after the wheel pant
> and little bracket are removed. That way it is always in my hangar
> ready for use. I wouldn't ever worry about the pipe falling off the
> jack either. If a piece of 3/4" sch 40 water pipe (7/8" OD) will work,
> I'll grind off the galvanizing, weld it to the jack & slap some paint on
> it. If I can get something bigger in there, that's better.
>
> Anyone know or can easily measure the ID of that gear leg axle for me?
>
> Greg
>
> On 10/22/07, *Dave Cudney* < yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net
> > wrote:
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> On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
>
>> ; Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel
>> pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle
>> nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it
>> onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack
>> bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or
>> something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to
>> remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
>>
>>
>>
>> Reverse to re-install.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>
> Thanks that makes sense.
>
> dave
>>
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>> * From:* owner-rv-list-serve r(at)matr onics.com
>> [
>> mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] * On Behalf Of *Dave Cudney
>> * Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2007 1:32 PM
>> * To:* rv-list(at)matronics.com
>> * Subject:* Re: Gear Legs
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm having a hard time visualizing how you get the wheel off with
>> the jack attached to the axle??? How does that work?
>>
>>
>>
>> dave
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>>
>> On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
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>>
>> http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.as px > >>
>> I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
>>
>>
http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
>>
>>
>> Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection
>>
>> size width="100%" align=center>
>>
>> * From:* owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com
>> [
>> mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com
>> ] * On Behalf Of *Greg
>> Williams
>> * Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
>> * To:* rv-list(at)matronics.com
>> * Subject:* Gear Legs
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm getting stuff rea dy to do my first annual condition inspection
>> on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time
>> flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the
>> wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a
>> piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the
>> nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the
>> open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in
>> wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is
>> about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg
>> tube.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: Gear Legs |
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Pictures:
The 1 1/2" hard pink foam gets poked by the odd nut sticking out but it
supports the weight of the plane without crushing. On the RV and the
Yankee, the CG is on the flat part of the bottom where the spar is
located. The top of my platform is about 18" x 40" or about 5 square
feet. The pressure on the bottom of the fuselage would be about 1200/5
or 240 lbs/sq.ft.
Bill Settle wrote:
| Quote: | John,
Got any pics?
-------------- Original message from John Morgensen
<john(at)morgensen.com>: --------------
>
>
> Harbor Freight sells a 1500lb ATV/Motorcycle lift that will pick
up the
> whole airplane. I am using this on a Grumman Yankee (a.k.a. RV
Trainer)
> and it works great! I built a box to fit on the rails and topped
it with
> a piece of plywood and the pink hard foam from Home Depot. Just
center
> the lift under the CG and service all three wheels at once.
>
> John Morgensen
> RV-9A Fuselage plumbing
> Grumman AA1B-150 (RV Trainer)
>
> Greg Williams wrote:
> > Hey Folks,
> >
> > Thanks for all the replies. I'm looking for the right size pipe to
> > use. My thought is to weld a 16" piece of pipe to this old
scissor jack
> > that I already have. It came out of some import car and is in good
> > shape. It will go low enough to slide the pipe in after the
wheel pant
> > and little bracket are removed. That way it is always in my hangar
> > ready for use. I wouldn't ever worry about the pipe falling off
the
> > jack either. If a piece of 3/4" sch 40 water pipe (7/8" OD)
will work,
> > I'll grind off the galvanizing, weld it to the jack & slap some
paint on
> > it. If I can get something bigger in there, that's better.
> >
> > Anyone know or can easily measure the ID of that gear leg axle
for me?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > On 10/22/07, *Dave Cudney* < yenduc(at)sbcglobal.net
> > > wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
> >
> >> ; Yea, I understand that. What you do is remove the little wheel
> >> pant bracket, place the jack inside the axle through the axle
> >> nut. After jacking it up you remove the axle nut and slide it
> >> onto the jack bracket pipe. You slide the wheel onto the jack
> >> bracket pipe as well then you can place a block or jackstand or
> >> something under the axle and let it down. This allows you to
> >> remove the wheel from the jack bracket to do whatever you need.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Reverse to re-install.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >
> > Thanks that makes sense.
> >
> > dave
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >> * From:* owner-rv-list-serve r(at)matr onics.com
> >> [
> >> mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com] * On Behalf Of
*Dave Cudney
> >> * Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2007 1:32 PM
> >> * To:* rv-list(at)matronics.com
> >> * Subject:* Re: Gear Legs
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm having a hard time visualizing how you get the wheel off with
> >> the jack attached to the axle??? How does that work?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Tim Bryan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.averytools.com/p-181-rv-jack-stand.as px
> >>
> >> I see they have the already modified axle nuts as well.
> >>
> >>
>
http://www.averytools.com/p-179-modified-rv-axle-nuts-for-rv-jack-stand.aspx
> >>
> >>
> >> Here are the brackets for wheel pant connection
> >>
> >> size width="100%" align=center>
> >>
> >> * From:* owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com
> >> [
> >> mailto:owner-rv-list-server(at)matronics.com
> >> ] * On Behalf Of *Greg
> >> Williams
> >> * Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2007 11:57 AM
> >> * To:* rv-list(at)matronics.com
> >> * Subject:* Gear Legs
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I'm getting stuff rea dy to do my first annual condition
inspection
> >> on my recently purchased, completed RV7. (I'm having a GREAT time
> >> flying!!) I want to change tires and was really nervous about the
> >> wing jack when I swapped tires 9 months ago. I was told to put a
> >> piece of pipe inside the landing gear strut before removing the
> >> nut and jack it up. Does anyone have their gear leg out in the
> >> open and could give me a measurement? Mine is all wrapped up in
> >> wheel pants and tough to get to right now. I think a 1" pipe is
> >> about right but need to know the inside diameter of the gear leg
> >> tube.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Greg
> >>
> >> *
> >>
> >> *
> >> *
> >> *
> >> *
> >>
> >&g t;
> >> http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RV-List*
> >> *
> >>
> >>
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