Now to answer your question, I have not heard of any failures. I have
heard of guys who were leery of the nose gear strut and filled it with
carbon fiber rods and epoxy to strengthen it. Personally, I do not feel
this is necessary and only adds weight.  When you taxi a nose wheel KR,
there is very little actual weight on the nose gear. If you hit a bump
in the taxiway, the nose will actually lift off the pavement. Of course,
when the KR is on the ramp and no pilot is inside the CG moves farther
forward which results in more weight on the nose gear. Again, this is of
no concern to me as I have many times manually lifted the nose off the
ground. When I did a W&B, there was 217 lbs on the nose wheel with the
Corvair engine installed.
Don't worry, you should have no problems with the Diehl nose gear.

Mark Jones (N886MJ)
Wales, WI
Web site: www.flykr2s.com
Mailto:flyk...@wi.rr.com


-----Original Message-----
From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On
Behalf Of Pitts Eric MSgt 181FW/MXOO
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:13 AM
To: kr...@mylist.net
Subject: KR> Nose gear failures


How many nose gear failures have there been on KRs with the Diehl setup
or
any setup and what part failed? i.e. The strut the lower mount or engine
mount



Thanks



 Eric Pitts

KR2S w/engine mount beening shipped today

Terre Haute Indiana



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