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I've recently seen a couple of references to the
Legacy glare shield. It appears it simply does not fit -- not even
close. I know of two builders who have put several hours into trying to
adapt the glare shield. Both gave up. One of them made a glare
shield from scratch, the other is considering cutting up the part from Lancair
and rebuilding it. I know Lancair has been made aware of this but I
haven't heard what they plan to do about it.
Last week I installed the nose gear on my
Legacy and ran into an interesting problem. The manual says to position
the bearing blocks so that there is between 1 and 5 degrees of forward rake on
the nose gear strut. When I positioned mine for 1.5 degrees of forward
rake the nose gear would not fully retract. The U-shaped bend in the
tubular portion of the over center link would make contact with the oleo and the
whole mechanism would bind. I had to back off to 0.5 degreess of rake for
everything to work properly. I called Lancair and talked it over with
Carsten and Tim Ong. Their conclusion was that it was ok to go down to 0
degrees of rake if needed.
Tom Gourley
L2K #122
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