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What's the general consensus on the wisdom of having a 360 nose strut re-worked to replace the roll pin with the clamp?  I'm not flying yet so I'm in no danger, but what's the service history here?  How many people has this happened to?  What's the general result of a failure -- is it merely a loosely swiveling wheel, does the wheel fall off, does loss of control on landing happen?

Presumably, there would not be a service bulletin issued if it wasn't worth fixing, but...

If this is an isolated occurrence with a benign failure mode I'd be willing to wait until later to get it fixed.  If, say, greater than 10% of the airplanes have had a problem, or the effect is to cause severe damage, I'll do it sooner.

Inspecting before flight is fine, but what about doing 6 or 8 touch-and-goes? You can't inspect prior to each landing.

What say you?

- Rob Wolf

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