scottmschmidt(at)yahoo.co
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 Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: Tire Wear / Brakes |
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As with all RV's my tires were starting to get pretty worn on the outside edge. I went to the hanger a couple of nights ago and rotated my tires and since I had the wheels off I decided to also switch out my brake pads and repack the bearings.
I currently have 230 hours on my RV-10. Not sure how many landings but I would guess it would be somewhere in the 200 range.
After looking at the brakes and tire wear, I would recommend all RV-10 owners to rotate tires and change out their brakes around 180 - 220 hours depending on how many landings they do. I typically do not do alot of touch and goes and when I do land, I let the plane slow as much as possible and use most of the runway just to save the brakes a little.
Here are a couple of pictures of the tires. You can see how they really wear on the outside. The air wasn't showing yet! I pulled the wheels apart, flipped the tire around, repacked the bearings and reassembled. It was pretty quick to do. I should be able to get another 150 - 200 hours out of these tires. My annual is coming up in October and I will check the wear on the tires then.
My brakes appeared to be about 50% worn. To do the brakes you need to have the special brake rivet tool. The two pads of the right are the old ones off the right side compared to a new one. New pads are $33 from Van's. Whatta deal 
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=20784
Scott Schmidt
scottmschmidt(at)yahoo.com
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