KR> Nose-Gear Alignment

2008-10-12 Thread Joseph H. Horton
That all sounds reasonable to set up for drilling. I did it with a level making the strut plumb. The one thing that Dan told me recently is that the vertical leg that the nose heel attaches to must trail by 5 deg. or you well surely have nose wheel shimmy. I also left the strut a little long on pu

KR> Nose-Gear Alignment

2008-10-12 Thread D F Lively
Joe: Thanks Joe. I was worried about "Shimmy" maybe will wait until I get the engine be fore I cut anything from the tube and just leave it set nose high and just attach the nose wheel Assy temporarily to Facilitate in moving the craft about on its wheels. How did you set-up your brake petals fo

KR> Nose-Gear Alignment

2008-10-12 Thread Joseph H. Horton
> the vertical leg that the nose heel attaches to must trail by 5 deg. That's wheel not heel -- sorry (stupid spell check) Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA. joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com

KR> Nose-Gear Alignment

2008-10-12 Thread D. F. Lively
Hi Netters: I looked in the archives and would like some direction on Nose gear alignment. I have installed the Nose-Gear ass'y and GP 5 pt mount on my KR but now wish to locate the holes in the front strut accurately. I was going to level the craft "left to right" using a self-leveling "La