REFLECTOR: slow nose gear down indicator

[John Dibble]

On 2/19/2013 6:38 PM, Scott Derrick wrote:
> Lately my nose gear down(green) light has take longer and longer to 
> light up.   The main green lights up, the gear motor stops, 10-15 
> seconds later I finally get a nose gear green. Actually today it took 
> maybe 25 seconds before the nose green lit up.  I was starting to wonder.
>
> I think my gas strut is getting old,  97 model strut.  Maybe it just 
> doesn't have the umphh to push it over center?
>
> Anybody see this type of behavior?
>
> Scott
>
After 10 years my strut was considerably weaker than a new one. Yours is 
probably still pushing over center, but not as far as before.  The last 
bit of push involves "stretching" the linkage/cylinder mechanism a bit.

John