B767Driver
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A friend of mine just purchased a 1975 piper warrior. He was describing to me that the right main strut was leaking fluid and bottoming out...so he had it rebuilt. A few weeks later he called and said the left main strut was bottoming out but not leaking like the other one was. He called to ask if I was familiar with this type of problem.
I have a couple thousand hours of PA28 time...but none of it in the last twelve years. I can remember a strut going bad...maybe a half dozen times...in over 2000 hours. I also remember pounding some pretty hard landings in...as an instructor...teaching people to land...and the struts always held.
Now, I know there must be numerous folks here with significant PA28 time. Does anyone have any info to pass on regarding the life of a landing gear strut...and the frequency of failures? (I'm fairly certain these are nitrogen and oleo struts.)
(BTW, he states the failures and strut deflations were not due to an abnormally hard landing event.)
Thanks for any info.
I have a couple thousand hours of PA28 time...but none of it in the last twelve years. I can remember a strut going bad...maybe a half dozen times...in over 2000 hours. I also remember pounding some pretty hard landings in...as an instructor...teaching people to land...and the struts always held.
Now, I know there must be numerous folks here with significant PA28 time. Does anyone have any info to pass on regarding the life of a landing gear strut...and the frequency of failures? (I'm fairly certain these are nitrogen and oleo struts.)
(BTW, he states the failures and strut deflations were not due to an abnormally hard landing event.)
Thanks for any info.