Nukemzzz Posted February 10, 2020 Report Posted February 10, 2020 Friends, ’66 M20e J-Bar system. Nose gear... Plane is back running. Now to tackle the gear issue I found. There is a kinked rod end which I believe resulted from the rod length not being set correctly when the system was repaired last year after the nose gear collapsed. I can’t find the PN of this rod end in the parts manual to save my life. Can I get some help on this? Also, any thoughts on how this would have happened? We are jacking the plane to work the gear Wednesday to troubleshoot. I think that rod is under compression when the gear is retracted, and it, along with a sister rod on the other side is what pushes the nose gear up into the well. If the travel is shorter than the rod length it will bind and buckle. That’s my best guess at the moment. The rod end goes in the empty hole circled. Currently the one bent doesn’t match the one that isn’t so I want to be sure to get the right part.
Igor_U Posted February 10, 2020 Report Posted February 10, 2020 I believe it should be M34-14 rod end. This is part of the Nose Gear retract Tube assy, and if I understand you correctly, item -6 in the Gear retraction system schematics (at least for my '67F).
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