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Michaels Web Site
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Date: 12-2-2017
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Number of Hours: 16.00
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Manual Reference: 40
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Brief Description: Main Gear Install
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As I have the wider landing gear as standard, I guess, it is not much known about the following problem.
Inserting the legs into the sleaves should be very straight forward exercise, not quite.
I experienced that the plane was not level across the cockpit and nor the spar box. Therefore I started to measure everything, the legs, the wheel weldment, the sleave insert... and everything was matching on the millimetre. So why was the plane limping to one side?
Finally I worked out a method to measure the sleave angle in the spar box, and yes the angles were not exact the same hence one lag was to short.
I manufactured an insert for the leg which extended the leg on the right for 23mm, which I trimmed down to 12mm and secured with a pin. This way both legs were sitting in the sleave all the way and the cockpit and spar box were both level.
This task involved a lot of bone work with lifting the fuse, leg in, leg out, adjust, measure and again this was only possible with a strong helping hand.
Considering this was only the prep work for the alignment!
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