Does anyone know if the plane needs weight on the nose
gear to complete this test?  If not it can be done
while doing a gear retraction test while on the jacks.
 It only requires that you twist the gear left and
right then see if it self centers.  Or, am I missing
something here?

Art Jensen
Legacy


--- Dennis Johnson <pinetownd@volcano.net> wrote:

> I'm still working on the annual inspection of my
> Legacy, but getting close to finishing.  One of the
> things I wanted to check was the nose gear
> anti-shimmy damper.  The assembly manual says to use
> two steel plates with grease between them.  Set the
> nose wheel on top of the plates and twist the nose
> wheel left and right to feel for the correct
> resistance.
>
> I didn't have a couple of steel plates, but I did
> have a lazy susan bearing similar to one of these:
>
>
http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=2&cat=3,44013&p=44042
>
> You can probably get them at your local big box home
> improvement store or hardware store.  I used a 6"
> one because that's what I had.  I screwed a 1.5"
> thick piece of wood to the top side of the bearing,
> about the size of the bearing's base.  I set the
> bearing directly on the hangar floor and lowered the
> nose wheel on top of the wood.  A simple, quick, and
> clean method of testing the anti-shimmy damper!
>
> Dennis Johnson
> Legacy



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