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Charles Heathco
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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: Nose gear strut update |
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Hiya All, I have gotten a few replys and one sent me to a site that stated the engine mount must be removed, lots a luck, I just replaced the O-320 2 months ago and am not looking forward to taking it back off to remove the engine mount. Seems that this is a somewhat common problem that Vans does not want to adress, per replys. Im not a grad enginere, but I am 67 yr old farm boy, and we had to come up with stuff that engineeres never would think of to keep our our stuff working. As I view the strut mount It is obviously a weak link. one bolt thru a short mount to hold some heavy duty forces. I have since day one pulled the nose gear off earlier than I ever did on my Ch-140, as that was what I got from my buddy in Covington Ga. If I ever banged the nose gear on like I did when learning to fly in "66 in Ch-140/180. it would probably colapse. For those who asked for clarification of removeing the spacer in the wheel bearing, With it in, I had a bit of wooble and with it out, a tight fit. Seems like the only answer is to ream it out and use a biger bolt, and that seems like one hell of a chore. Charlie
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:52 am Post subject: Nose gear strut update |
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Aha, so the spacer you refer to is in the wheel bearing fork. I
follow you. That part eventually got filed down by degrees to a
length that allowed some preload on the bearings when the axle bolt
wsat tightened to spec. I remember doing that after my second set of
nosewheel bearings went bad. Van has redesigned this for another
model of nose wheel and it now takes a different (now sealed) bearing
and no spacer.
Best wishes, Charlie. I still think if you're going to ream, the
tapered pin is the way to go. You could re-ream and re-use same pin
several times if it ever worked loose, since the taper will take up
the slack repeatedly, while a bolt won't.
-Stormy
On 10/4/06, Charles Heathco <cheathco(at)cox.net> wrote:
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Hiya All, I have gotten a few replys and one sent me to a site that stated
the engine mount must be removed, lots a luck, I just replaced the O-320 2
months ago and am not looking forward to taking it back off to remove the
engine mount. Seems that this is a somewhat common problem that Vans does
not want to adress, per replys. Im not a grad enginere, but I am 67 yr old
farm boy, and we had to come up with stuff that engineeres never would think
of to keep our our stuff working. As I view the strut mount It is obviously
a weak link. one bolt thru a short mount to hold some heavy duty forces. I
have since day one pulled the nose gear off earlier than I ever did on my
Ch-140, as that was what I got from my buddy in Covington Ga. If I ever
banged the nose gear on like I did when learning to fly in "66 in
Ch-140/180. it would probably colapse. For those who asked for clarification
of removeing the spacer in the wheel bearing, With it in, I had a bit of
wooble and with it out, a tight fit. Seems like the only answer is to ream
it out and use a biger bolt, and that seems like one hell of a chore.
Charlie
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