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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:46
PM
Subject: [LML] Clean Anti-Shimmy Test for
Legacy
I'm still working on the annual inspection of my Legacy, but getting
close to finishing. One of the things I wanted to check was the nose
gear anti-shimmy damper. The assembly manual says to use two steel
plates with grease between them. Set the nose wheel on top of the
plates and twist the nose wheel left and right to feel for the correct
resistance.
I didn't have a couple of steel plates, but I did have a lazy susan
bearing similar to one of these:
You can probably get them at your local big box home improvement store or
hardware store. I used a 6" one because that's what I had. I
screwed a 1.5" thick piece of wood to the top side of the bearing,
about the size of the bearing's base. I set the bearing directly on the
hangar floor and lowered the nose wheel on top of the wood. A simple,
quick, and clean method of testing the anti-shimmy damper!
Dennis Johnson
Legacy