Dan Walker, If I were in your place, and I was, I would convert it to a fixed gear using the Grove type. All you have to do is take out the retract, patch the holes and put a small hole in the fuselage that you cover over when you fair in the gear bar. It makes a very neat installation.
I ground looped mine also, several times, and would have suffered no damage on any of those loops, had I had the right size tires on the Goodyear wheels The only damage that I did suffer was to the wheels outside rim. Dump the retract, whatever you do. See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC da...@kr-builder.org See you in Mt. Vernon - 2004 - KR Gathering See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org
