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My nose gear is installed on my 360. I have been doing some retract tests
lately, and finally got around to looking at the nose gear problem.  The
gear will not retract far enough into the gear tunnel - it dangles by about1".
So I thought: "Oh, the machined aluminum 'stop' that slides over the shaft
is too long, preventing the cylinder from sufficiently retracting".
So I took it off, and filed 1/32" off of it.  Not enough.
So I filed off another 1/32".  Still not enough.  In fact, it appears to not
be helping at all.
So I filed off about 1/8".  Still no good.  So now I got really smart.  I
left it off completely (why didn't I do this to start?). But the gear still didn't retract enough.  Now I am confused.  This is a
1992 version fast-build.  I didn't install the nose gear, but I thought the
points were already set by the factory.  If I shorten the rod end by
screwing it further down the threads, then it won't exert much, if any,
force at "over-center" - or it may not even get "over center".
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Matt

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