craymondw(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 7:50 am Post subject: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 05/24/19 |
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After my GL2SFT my nose wheel wear pad crumbled I purchased a piece of hard 5/16th inch hard shoe leather for $6.00 and cut out a new one on a band saw and used powerful gray marine epoxy to attach it to the backing and used graphite as a lubricant. A short while later I learned Glastar nose wheel wear pads were the same one used on Glasair FT and costs $43.00 and you have to say you own a Glastar in order for them to sell them to you. Leather was used as clutch and bearing materials all the way up to the late 1920's and I will provide up dates on how the leather holds up. I think the cause was oil and primer draining down the strut and soaking the old wear pad. After replacing the pad I used a tie wrap to direct oil and primer fuel away. My ex NASCAR mechanic IO 360 200HP rebuilt (jeff(at)a2z-aviation.com) using his custom designed exhaust system and Hartzels' Blended foil prop, with the engine finally braking in and I am showing consistent 226 mph ground speed at six to eight thousand feet alt. As a side note, in order to clear the the nose wheel assembly I had to use a 180 sump on my 200HP wide bank. I found when I filled the sump with nine quarts of oil the oil level covered the cylinder oil drain inlets and backed up the oil causing excessive oil consumption and found a six quart max ended the high consumption. I used a removed oil sump and learned the sump itself holds five quarts and adding another quart brings the oil level up to six would just clear the crankcase oil drain inlets.
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