Gear Wiggle

[planeolbob]

Hi Everyone,
Today I was into the Landing gear portion of my annual and noticed my right gear has developed a wiggle. Here is a video:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/planeolbo ... ed-public/

The left is much better than this. Most of the movement is at the top connection. What do you all think?

Bob Mika

[peter anson]

Hi Bob, definitely too much. It looks like you have done a good job of reinforcing the bolt-hole in the axle so I would guess that the top hole in the gear leg has become enlarged slightly. You need to check both ends anyway.

Peter

[Corby202]

Be interesting to know what's worn. Lot to be said for gluing the gear legs in place.

[kmacht]

Did you do the service bulletin on the gear leg bolts? Is it possible that the upper bolt has broken? I would pull the gear leg out and see what's worn or broken. That amount of slop is not normal.

Keith
#554

[Bryan Cotton]

I glued mine in. Holding up well parked in the hangar.

[planeolbob]

Yes, I did the bolt change a few years back and used larger bolts. By that I mean as pick up diameter bolts as I could get. I will remove the bolt in the care like tomorrow And see what the deal Liz. What kind of glue did you guys use?

[planeolbob]

Sorry, the voice recognition sometimes shows funny words

[Corby202]

I used T88 but only because I had some left over from a previous project. I used it on the top and bottom of the gear legs plus the tail spring. It needs to be heated to remove anything but I can live with that.

[DCASonex]

Would definitely pull top bolts and inspect before next flight.

If over-sized or oval holes, I had more movement than I liked when new and was able to drill out both top and bottom for nice tight fit of 5/16" bolts. That was 5 years ago. No problems.

David A.

[Bryan Cotton]

I used this:
http://m.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/wpp ... key=340448
I still went for the best bolt fit possible. I view the glue as a helper. The axles and tail spring didn't fit as nice so the epoxy is taking up the space.