REFLECTOR: wheel shimmy

nmflyer1 at aol.com nmflyer1 at aol.com
Wed Feb 18 11:11:10 CST 2009



Bill, 

Thanks for the input on the new shock mount. I went ahead and bought 2, but was going to wait to see if I needed to change it out before I removed my heater assembly and took all that apart. Perhaps I should do that now. 

I mentioned this once before, but when I switched to the new thicker fork for the fixed gear, there was more room between the fork and that left play in the wheel system. I ended up making some shims to make sure there was no slop in the front wheel system. It wasn't much, probably .050, but with the weight off the nose it was very noticable. 

I wonder if this slop can cause, or amplify any shimmy issues. I would recommend folks checking that out. 

Kurt 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stockman, Bill <bill.stockman at daytonaero.com>
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 9:10 am
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: wheel shimmy



Brian

I have had my fair share of shimmy problems and have spent a bit of time
looking at Tigers, cirrus, columbia's etc to see what works and what
doesn't
--The spam cans and composite spam cans have few shimmy problems but all
have one big thing in common--a 300-500 lb engine and accessories
sitting on the wheel.    This tends to dampen out or avoid much of their
shimmy 
--I must say that the new rubber shock mount for the gear on the front
bulkhead has made a huge difference.    Since my last shimmy disaster
(which destroyed the OEM rubber bumper and tore up my wheel pant along
with the nose gear lock mechanism), I installed the new rubber mount and
have had no problems what so ever.   Even better, it has reduced the
horrible ride during taxi on rough taxiways.   

MTCW after 600+ hours on my 173FGE with the oversize tires---install the
new rubber shock mount before trying all these other heroic solutions.  

Bill Stockman, Senior Associate
Dayton Aerospace
 
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