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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:22 pm Post subject: Undercarriage Nylok Nuts

When I was at Oshkosh in 2015 I stopped to chat to a poor RV-10 pilot (sorry I can't remember your name, however you had an English accent, so I'm assuming you weren't American, but I digress), who had experienced overheating of his brakes while taxiing in after landing, to the point where the wheel fairing caught fire.



Suffice to say that the undercarriage as a burnt mess.



Considering the potential for overheating of the brakes, I am considering swapping all the Nylok nuts on the undercarriage and brakes with all-metal stop nuts.



Have others adopted a similar course of action as a contingency?



Is there any disadvantage of using the cadmium plated all-metal lock nuts?



Warm regards



Patrick

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eagerlee

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 5:30 am Post subject: Re: Undercarriage Nylok Nuts

We replaced all the nylok nuts at the brake calipers with high temperature lock nuts for the very reason you stated - things could get HOT sometimes.

Paul Hahn

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Kelly McMullen

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:29 pm Post subject: Undercarriage Nylok Nuts

If the nylocs on the calipers get hot enough to fail, you will have already overheated the O rings and likely have brake fluid leaking.



While some have replaced the O-rings of standard MS designation with Viton for heat resistance, there is a lot of mass to dissapate heat in the calipers. Nice to add protection, but the caliper manufacturers seem to mostly use nylock and proably have a good idea the heat stress for those nuts.



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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:57 am Post subject: Undercarriage Nylok Nuts

Many thanks for cementing my thoughts Paul.



Warm regards



Patrick



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 We replaced all the nylok nuts at the brake calipers with high temperature lock nuts for the very reason you stated - things could get HOT sometimes.

 Paul Hahn

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