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obie311
Explorer II
Nov 04, 2019

dissecting a Lippert Ground Control 3.0 landing leg

I have the electric Lippert GC 3.0 front landing leg that failed on me in Arizona this spring. I have boxed up the motor for a spare as I believe it is OK. I will test it later. I'd like to do an a...
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laknox
Nomad
Nov 07, 2019
Hoppy220 wrote:
There is no way to get to it to lube it without complete disassembly. I run landing gear all the way out and spray gear lube through an opening in the outer housing hoping to get enough on the rod to help it out. It's just a bad design on liperts part.


Unfortunately, it's not only LCI that has this issue. Most landing legs don't seem to have any way to lube them. Personally, if I were to do so, I'd use a "dry" lube, one that won't attract, or keep, dirt.

Lyle

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