Landing gear lock pin sheared.
Our friends and neighbors had a landing gear problem in the campground yesterday. It appears that the large lock pin was too weak and it sheared off. There was a loud "boom" and none of us knew wh...
Forum Discussion
It was the pin that you pull to let the foot drop. The pin is spring loaded.
The broken off half was still in the square upper tube. They retracted the leg up until it jammed. Then they jacked up the frame and extended the leg until we could see a deformed hole and what looked like a piece of jagged metal.
The owner poked at it and the it poked out the other side.
In retrospect, I think that maybe the pin did not extend all the way through and it had just caught the edge of the opposing hole.
Maybe if he had wiggled the pin to ensure that it was all the way in then the failure might not have occurred. ???
The broken off half was still in the square upper tube. They retracted the leg up until it jammed. Then they jacked up the frame and extended the leg until we could see a deformed hole and what looked like a piece of jagged metal.
The owner poked at it and the it poked out the other side.
In retrospect, I think that maybe the pin did not extend all the way through and it had just caught the edge of the opposing hole.
Maybe if he had wiggled the pin to ensure that it was all the way in then the failure might not have occurred. ???
