I have the :tripacer;nose gear .If you beg from Univair you may be
able to get a parts breakdown. Glenn Putnam
On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:03 PM, eaaflyguy wrote:
After I bought my ercoupe, my father and a good friend of his who
both owned ercoupes in the past said I had a non-standard nosegear.
The airplane actually came with a spare single fork nosegear, and
my father still had a single fork nosegear from his ercoupe he had
in the 1960's.
I was at the ercoupe forum at Oshkosh, and someone said there was a
Tri-pacer nosegear on an ercoupe at the field. I was urged to
replace my gear with the original single fork, until I found a
reference to a univair part in the skyport catalog…..
U415-34090-1A Univair double arm steel nose gear conversion. Which
matches mine.
The gear has a flange for a tow bar, and the fork looks like a
plate of ¾" steel bent in a U shape to house the wheel. Not quite a
stylish as the cast original, but beefy.
I have not seen any other coupes with this gear, or the conversion
listed on the univair website (It may be in the catalog?). Does
anyone else have this nosegear mod? I'm curious when they were made
or discontinued, and roughly how many were put out in service.
