>> I have the :tripacer;nose gear .If you beg from Univair you may be able to get a parts breakdown.
The gear to which ypou are referring is just a replacement fork on a standard Ercoupe nose strut. It was marketed by Univair as a Dual Fork conversion. The parts breakdown can be found in the suplimented parts catalog provided by Skyport and on line at www.ercoupeparts.com <http://www.ercoupeparts.com/> Univair has no more forged forks available and likely never will. It is probable tht this tri-pacer fork will be the replacement sometime soon. John Cooper Skyport Services www.skyportservices.net _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glenn Putnam Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:44 PM To: eaaflyguy Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Nose Gear 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.
