Posted for "Randy Snarr" <randy@telamerica.com>:

 Scott,
 You bring up an interesting point in how your gear is adjusted. My system is
 adjusted as per the factory
 with the gear against the aluminum sleeve stops on the up side and the down
 side is stopped by the over center links.
 The over center links are not that beefy and there is an enormous amount of
 stress on them with the down pressure at maximum.
 
 I wonder if there has ever been a failure due to this stress.
 Your solution sounds reasonable to me.
 
 I am curious as to what other have done if anything regarding the down side
 adjustment.
 
 Whilst writing this post I called Ross at Lancair and he told me essentially
 the same thing in that the over center link was not designed to handle the
 total down side stress of the system but admitted that there are many
 airplanes flying that are set up that way.
 He recommended the same solution as Scott, and that is to have the hyd cyl
 bottom out about the same time as the over center
 link hits it's limit taking a significant amount of the stress off the over
 center link...
 
 Randy L. Snarr
 235/320
 92% threatening 93% any day now...