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"Kids these days"-AAflyer
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Hey, gang,
so I'm loving life using up air (and gas) in the -28 every chance I get. We're having a nagging issue with the nose gear strut. It's not losing fluid from anywhere, but after a few days it's going flat on us. So it's losing nitrogen from somewhere and we can't seem to find out where. We replaced the Schrader valve, tried the Granville (just to cover the bases).
I can't seem to imagine that an internal seal wouldn't still result in the loss of 5606 at least somewhere. It's a dry as a bone. So we are nearly convinced that it has to be leaking somewhere above the fluid. No bubbles from around the Schrader with the soapy water test, but again it's a very slow leak.
We have been unable to find an exploded view of the strut assembly, so it's hard to plan a repair to save us from perhaps unnecessarily removing the whole thing and rebuilding it.
Anyone got any ideas?
so I'm loving life using up air (and gas) in the -28 every chance I get. We're having a nagging issue with the nose gear strut. It's not losing fluid from anywhere, but after a few days it's going flat on us. So it's losing nitrogen from somewhere and we can't seem to find out where. We replaced the Schrader valve, tried the Granville (just to cover the bases).
I can't seem to imagine that an internal seal wouldn't still result in the loss of 5606 at least somewhere. It's a dry as a bone. So we are nearly convinced that it has to be leaking somewhere above the fluid. No bubbles from around the Schrader with the soapy water test, but again it's a very slow leak.
We have been unable to find an exploded view of the strut assembly, so it's hard to plan a repair to save us from perhaps unnecessarily removing the whole thing and rebuilding it.
Anyone got any ideas?