Message-ID: <36201435.49D03FAB@soca.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:13:10 -0700
From: Bob Chesley <rchesley@soca.com>
Reply-To: rchesley@soca.com
To: Lancair <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Nose Gear Retraction
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    I too had the nose gear door close before gear retraction.  It
happened only two or three times when I first activated the gear.  It
did a little damage, too.
    Since the manual does not give any instruction on bleeding the line,
and I didn't, I concluded that air in the line was leaking through the
valve activatind the retract, but not the hydraulic fluid.  I haven't
had further problems in, probably, 100+ retractions.  I'll bet deChaze
is right that the valve is leaking.
    Now I'm having to replace the o-rings on the door cylinder because
one somewhere in there has already failed.  Any others had a sudden,
heavy leak there?

Bob Chesley
L-320 builder
Ojai, CA