New Cessna 150 Owner

[drunkenbeagle]

I’ll ask - have to reach out about the newest issue I discovered tonight anyways. Trying to diagnose an excessive nose wheel shimmy on rollout. I aired up the mains when I got the plane, but ignored the nose gear tire since it looked fine. Went to the airport tonight to check inflation and then potentially test fly it if it was low on air… only to discover that the air valve is on the opposite side of the tire from where the valve door in the wheel pant is

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Get the tire balanced before you do anything else.

 

[Roger Roger]

Get the tire balanced before you do anything else.

Oh god Cessna nose wheel shimmy…that’s some memories

I’m still amazed the nose wheel steering on a 206 works at all, talk about over engineered. The Cherokee was so much simpler…

 

[bp]

Get the tire balanced before you do anything else.

that would also be a good one to watch/learn from a mechanic since you’re allowed to do that on your own, especially if you havent done a tire or balanced before

 

[Roger Roger]

No, my tools, my hangar, my airplanes. I unblocked you to ask what maintenance considerations I may have missed. I have never signed off any maintenance work that would ever remotely exceed my authority to do so. I am familiar with what authority I do have as a pilot and owner under part 43. As you well know, work performed under the direct supervision (watching me do it) of A&P mechanics and IA's absolutely is customary and normal and within the scope of regulation, and my airplane sits next to several active DMEs. While I don't consult them professionally, we all collectively strive to keep a high standard of airworthiness and certainly know each other.

And yes, I think it is a fair question. Why should it take half day to mount a prop on a 152 with no other complications? I have seen it take weeks to fit a prop on other piston singles, but there were good reasons why. (the reasons were good - putting in weights, needing a 337 for them, cracks in a spinner to be re-worked, etc. etc.) But none of those considerations were given here.

Oh god, I remember the first prop I helped install out of a&p school on a Mooney…the installation was so tight that IIRC the rear bulkhead was 2 pieces and even so access to the bolts to safety them was awful. Of course I barely knew what I was doing either. Navajo props were much better with the long hubs. Cessna props didn’t have safeties. Neither, IIRC, did the turbine props.