Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:15:26 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from vineyard.net ([204.17.195.90] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.3) with ESMTP id 2590111 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:50:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by vineyard.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5059192682 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vineyard.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (king1.vineyard.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11513-04 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from direct (fsy20.vineyard.net [66.101.65.20]) by vineyard.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A90C92622 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:50:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-Message-ID: <007a01c38186$7ee2cf20$14416542@direct> From: "Ted Stanley" X-Original-To: "Mail List Lancair" Subject: Legacy braking X-Original-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:55:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS at Vineyard.NET Thought I'd pass along my one and only experience in a Legacy. I was in Redmond a few years ago and Orin gave me a demo ride in a Legacy. On landing roll out I tried braking and the pedal on one side went right to the floor. "I don't have any brakes ! .... you've got it" (far be it from me to be responsible for wrinkling the then new Legacy demo bird). Orin later told me they'd been having problems with this. They bled the brakes over and over without sucess at eliminating the problem. Braking was fine on the ground but one take off and landing and the problem would reappear. I told him I knew what it was. When the gear retracted something was putting pressure on the caliper and pushing the brake pistons back in their holes. I had seen this before on a Seneca. I never did hear from Orin whether or not it got fixed. Somehow I think it annoyed him that I knew what the problem was right off the bat and they had spent so much time trying to figure it out. Oh well, sometimes you get lucky. Thought I'd share it just in case someone else was having a similar experience. Ted Stanley - A&P-IA