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April 25th, 2007, 16:41
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oregon
Posts: 376
 |  Nose Strut Pressure
Preflighting a Cessna 150 today, I noticed that the nose gear piston tube was showing only about a finger-and-half-width's worth of chrome. In fact, the ends of the scissors hinges were touching each other - it was compressed to its limit. I figured trying to manuever the 150 on the ground could mean some nasty metal grinding. Following the "never fly with less than three fingers worth of chrome," I didn't fly. But I realized I'd never been told what to do if I should run into that problem. Is this an issue only a mechanic can fix? Or is there something stupid simple a pilot can do to correct it and be on his/her merry way? |
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April 25th, 2007, 17:46
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| Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: SC
Posts: 292
|  Re: Nose Strut Pressure
First thing to do would be to lift and/or bounce the nose just a bit to see if the nose strut is just stuck. If low, fairly easy to fill (schrader valve) but uses nitrogen and have to remove the cowling, so basically an A&P job.
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April 25th, 2007, 21:35
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Indianapolis
Posts: 387
| Re: Nose Strut Pressure
Have an A&P fix it.
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April 27th, 2007, 20:39
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Portland, Orygun
Posts: 1,641
| Re: Nose Strut Pressure
were you at Twin Oaks? did you talk to Bob or Danny about it?
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April 28th, 2007, 01:15
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: GKY
Posts: 1,708
| Re: Nose Strut Pressure
Take the cowling off, and look directly at the nose strut, you will see a valve that looks like like a bicycle tire valve. You can air it up from there with an air compressor. The strut's o-ring may have been broken, so if you see fluid, it needs to be rebuilt. |
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