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Install an "oil guard" on the nose gear strut

 
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PostPosted: Wed May 29, 2019 2:39 pm    Post subject: Install an "oil guard" on the nose gear strut Reply with quote

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.

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From: Charles Raymond <craymondw(at)aol.com (craymondw(at)aol.com)>

Subject: 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(at)a2z-aviation.com (jeff(at)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-

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