I would definitely ask Dan D. if he has seen this problem before. We did not have that problem, but I am concerned about the extreme amount of camber that we do have.
This is why I always recommend the Grove type of gear. These things cannot happen with that type of gear and the installation is simple. I have done both and both have their advantages. I am not saying this for you, because you are committed to the Diehl at this point. At least you only have to tear out the bottom to see what is wrong. If you have to remove one of them because they are not the same, be sure to get the angle from Dan, for the correct one first. d...@diehlaero.com N64KR Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC da...@kr-builder.org See you in Red Oak - 2003 See our KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Click on the pic See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org -------Original Message------- From: KR builders and pilots List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:37:14 PM To: KR builders and pilots Subject: KR>Camber So I just spent the last couple of months ripping out my retracts, putting in a Diehl gear assembly, foaming and glassing the resulting holes and today I put my Matcos on only to find that the camber between the wheels isn't even remotely close. I sat there in a very pissed off mood measuring and re-measuring again only to find that the lower gear brackets do not share the same angle formed between the gear leg and the axle. As a matter of fact it turns out that between the two, they're several degrees off (about 4 degrees). For those of you messing around with gear geometry at this point in your life, you know that this is a lot of degrees. I can't understand this - it never occurred to me to check this prior to bolting them to the gear legs. In fairness to the people at Diehl, I bought the assembly second-hand, but it obviously was not damaged. And judging from what I see on the web, it sure looks like a Diehl assembly. Moreover, a shim is really not going to work very well - a quick computation with my CAD program indicates that a 4 degree tapered shim behind the axle is about .210 thick. I'm just sick about this mess. Anybody out there got any clever solutions short of ripping my plane apart again? Mike Meyer _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html .
