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Re: Landing Gear Axles
Steve,
In days gone by the 1 1/4" axles would bend or break, typically in the area under the bearing stop if the axles weren't reinforced. It didn't matter if they were off of a Pacer, Clipper or Cub. Remember that you have a 4' +/- lever hanging from that axle when you are on skis. Regretfully most of the gear were damaged by an overzealous pilot grabbing the tail to turn the airplane with one of the skis frozen down. We used to anything from 3/4" water pipe to 1 1/8" .125 4130 driven into the cluster inboard of the brake attach. There are factory rosettes at the bearing stop and you had to file or grind out the inside of the rossete before driving the reinforcements in. (Boy, was I releived when I found out that I wasn't the round bastard that Dad mentioned, when he would send me out to work on a gear)
This is also a good place to post a reminder to make sure that the Univair wide gear service bulletin has been done, on all of our gear. I am still running into a set every year or so that has not been complied with. -SB
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
regards the Univair SB on the gear, are they still providing the parts free?? :?:
"Progress is our most important problem"
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
I am not sure. I have a Pacer project here that needed the SB complied with and we just cut the gussets out of scrap. I'll ask next time I talk to them.
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
Hi Steve; Your picture above brings back a problem I had many moons ago with an A/I doing my annual. To facilitate wheel pants, I moved the brake calipers to the 5 O'Clock position such as you have shown above. Tha A/I made me change it and move them to the position which was slightly above the 3 O'Clock position. He stated that that was the only authorized position. Since I was wanting my plane and he was holding up the signature, I was hostage to his belief. Subsequently, I have Never found anything to support his contention on this position. Do you have anything that directs the positioning of the brakes on a Cleveland wheel? Thanks
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
I have the Cleveland drawing for the double puck brakes and the Stoddard's STC for the single puck Colt brakes. I will look and see what they show. I have seen them configured all sorts of ways. Some are fit in a way to install wheel pants that won't allow the brakes to be bled because the brake line and bleeder fitting are horizontal instead of verticle. I will look at the STC and drawing and post some pictures.
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
steve
I would be interested in the answer to Homer's question because a friend of mine with a 22/20 had the same comment / problem with an IA doing the annual , ie brake calipers not mounted where he thought they should be....
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
Here is the Cleveland installation drawing for the 150 hp Super Cub which I have used for field approvals on other aircraft. I will have to look at my Pacer paperwork and see what is included there and also in the Stoddard's STC.[attachment=0:r0mrtteu]Cleveland drawing.pdf[/attachment:r0mrtteu]
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Re: Landing Gear Axles
Originally Posted by
andya
regards the Univair SB on the gear, are they still providing the parts free?? :?:
Got mine from them late last year so I would assume they are still available. It was only a small triangle of metal about a inch or so on the sides.
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