---------------------------------------------------------- Yak-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 08/11/14: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:26 PM - CJ6 rear cockpit gear handle (Philip Nicholson) 2. 08:26 PM - Hissing gear handle (Roger Kemp) 3. 09:17 PM - Re: CJ6 rear cockpit gear handle (cjpilot710@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:26:38 PM PST US Subject: Yak-List: CJ6 rear cockpit gear handle From: Philip Nicholson Gentlemen, I'll preface this by saying that I'm not at my plane and don't have my checklist etc... all info is second hand. Heard air escaping from the front cockpit gear handle. Bought and replaced gear handle. Still heard hissing. Helper said he also heard gear escaping from rear cockpit gear lever. Discovered that rear lever was in between neutral and gear down.... must have been bumped by a passenger. 2 questions: 1. What position should the rear controls be in? (I assume neutral). 2. Why would this cause leakage in the front controls or is it entirely unrelated? Thanks, Phil Nicholson C-FEPN ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:26:53 PM PST US Subject: Yak-List: Hissing gear handle From: Roger Kemp Phil, not a CJ owner but in the YAK air leaking from the gear handle is seldom the handle itself. It most likely coming from a gear actuator. Doc Sent from my iPad ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:17:49 PM PST US From: cjpilot710@aol.com Subject: Re: Yak-List: CJ6 rear cockpit gear handle Phil, The rear gear handle should be in neutral. Think of it as direct flow to the front gear handle while in neutral. If you have or hear air hissing at either handle, it could be any one of the three gear actuators leaking. The system is designed so that air being displaced with moving of the actuators must exist at the handle. You will hear it doing so you first move the handle. Once the actuators have reached their full stops, the hissing should stop. If it does not, than the seals in the actuators are leaking. You can find out which one by doing a simple test. One. Put the gear handle down. 2. Loosen the "B" nut (17mm wrench) on the UP side of the actuators. 3. You can spray a little bit of soapy water on the "B" nut. 4. If you see bubbles around the nut, than the internal seal ( "O" rings really ) are leaking. If none of them are leaking, than it might be the "O" rings in the gear handles. Jim "Pappy" Goolsby In a message dated 8/11/2014 10:26:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, pednicholson@gmail.com writes: Gentlemen, I'll preface this by saying that I'm not at my plane and don't have my checklist etc... all info is second hand. Heard air escaping from the front cockpit gear handle. Bought and replaced gear handle. Still heard hissing. Helper said he also heard gear escaping from rear cockpit gear lever. Discovered that rear lever was in between neutral and gear down.... must have been bumped by a passenger. 2 questions: 1. What position should the rear controls be in? (I assume neutral). 2. Why would this cause leakage in the front controls or is it entirely unrelated? Thanks, Phil Nicholson C-FEPN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message yak-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Yak-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/yak-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/yak-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.