Dave . He has a used one pair ready, but he can't get the old one out! Now there are already three folks on the list that had rusted solid struts.
I was under the impression that these struts could run low on fluid, but rusting solid, that's new to me. Hartmut From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: MLG Problems, long post, Need Help! Finally, someone has a problem that I don't have! Wonder if you can find a new/used pair of oleos? --- In [email protected], "Donald" <dongen...@...> wrote: > > Fitting in with the MLG postings of late, I decidewd to jack mine up and put > in the spacers to raise my tail today. As I was taking thinga apart, I was > surprised to see there were already a set of spacers there. Strange, my tail > is pretty low. > I decided to measure my donut stack, three and 1/2 inches, although the > rubbers look as good as new. I jacked it up to measure again no load - still > three and a half! What the heck is going on here. I have a pair of bellville > spring equipped struts, measured them, and the stack is about four and a > quarter inches! > I decide to take things apart to see what is going on, drop the bottom bolt, > swing the strut back to pull it off - and it won't move! Now I understand why > the rubbers are compressed - the strut is froze solid in a compressed state! > Take the other side off, same thing. > Easy, just pull the top bolt out - whoops, I think you must have to pull the > wings to do that AND have some special wrenches, not what I wanted. I found I > could put a drift down thru between the wing and center section, and pound on > the top of the strut to try to beat the bottom part off. No luck, gave up for > the day and came home to get a bigger hammer - a LOT BIGGER hammer. I may > have to heat the outside of the strut to release it, probably burn up the > rubbers, and I don't even know for sure WHERE the sticking is! > Has anybody else had this problem? I could sure use an easy solution right > now. > No wonder I had such a devil of a time with smooth landings, darned thing had > NO spring action whatever! >
