Hey Hartmut: I believe that this sort of thing comes from a couple areas.
First, mechanics (or would be mechanics) servicing the airplane without
using the Service Manual and therefore not jacking the airplane at least every
100 hours/annual and servicing the landing gear properly. Second, the early
reputation of not being a "real pilot's airplane" and thus creating a lame
duck environment so that many Ercoupe's were kept in a less than desired
environment.
Now, due to Sport Pilot rules, the airplane is much sought after, and
several have been resurrected from far less than good conditions.
Lynn
In a message dated 5/24/2010 3:53:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
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: _bigbrownpi...@bigbrow_ (mailto:[email protected])
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:33 AM
To: _ercoupe-t...@ercoupe-techerc_ (mailto:[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?
