Replacing the Landing Gear Motor

[Bob1180]

What is the diffaculty level of replacing a landing gear motor? Best place to purchase one.

[Vulcaneer]

up2nogood wrote:

TucsonJim wrote:
It shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes or so. Are you sure you have a motor problem? I thought I did, but it was actually a gear problem in one of the legs.

I agree, had some flat spots on the worm gear, the one I had was not made to remove the worm gear from the landing leg but with a little work got it out, and took it to a machine shop, and they turned it ,and cleaned up the threads, runs great . It is a pretty quick job to replace a landing leg or gear box .

Same with me. Lost some gear teeth. Lippert system. Motor change is easy. Leg removal and replace takes some more tools and a little more work. But not all that bad if you can work with your hands, have a good jack, a couple of 9/16 wrenches. And have reasonable skills.

[cummins2014]

TucsonJim wrote:
It shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes or so. Are you sure you have a motor problem? I thought I did, but it was actually a gear problem in one of the legs.

I agree, had some flat spots on the worm gear, the one I had was not made to remove the worm gear from the landing leg but with a little work got it out, and took it to a machine shop, and they turned it ,and cleaned up the threads, runs great . It is a pretty quick job to replace a landing leg or gear box .

[TucsonJim]

It shouldn't take you more than 30 minutes or so. Are you sure you have a motor problem? I thought I did, but it was actually a gear problem in one of the legs.

[donn0128]

Very easy. If you have Venture mfg landing gear, give them a call and they will sell you what you need. In fact, if you have a Venture Mfg landing gear, it is fairly inexpensive and easy to swap to a dual motor system.