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| Subject: | Install an "oil guard" on the nose gear strut |
I wrote about this problem of engine oil from the engine onto the nose gear friction
pad in an early Glasair Newsletter.
My solution was to make a tiny aluminum stop plate that had the curvature of the
nose gear strut tube on the top end. I expoxied that to the bottom of the strut,
a few inches uphill from the nose gear. When oil drips down the tube, as
it inevitably will, the oil hits the plate and drips "downwind" of the friction
pad.
Time: 08:50:41 AM PST US
From: Charles Raymond <craymondw@aol.com>
Subject: Glasair-List: Re: Glasair-List Digest: 0 Msgs - 05/24/19
After my GL2SFT=C2- my nose wheel wear pad crumbled I purchased a piece o
f hard 5/16th inch hard shoe leather for $6.00 and cut out=C2- a new one
on a band saw and used powerful gray marine epoxy to attach it to the backi
ng and used graphite as a lubricant.=C2- A short while later I learned Gl
astar 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.=C2- Leather was used as clutch and bearing materials all the way
up to the late 1920's and=C2-I will provide up dates on how the leather h
olds up.=C2-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@a2z-aviation.com) using his custom designed exhaust system and Hartz
els' Blended foil prop, with the engine finally=C2-braking in and=C2- I
am showing consistent=C2-226 mph ground speed at six to eight thousand f
eet alt. As a side note, in order to clear the the nose wheel assembly I ha
d to use a 180 sump on my 200HP wide bank. I found when I filled the sump w
ith 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 qua
rt max ended the high consumption. I used a removed oil sump and learned th
e sump itself holds five quarts and adding another quart brings the oil lev
el up to six would just clear the crankcase oil drain inlets.=C2- =C2-
=C2-
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