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RV4 long gear shimmy question ?

Larry DeCamp

Well Known Member
I am finalizing gear and pants fairings. The question is whether some form of stiffener is worth the weight and the effort. I had carbon fiber on my RV3 and it would still shake a little at exactly the right speed turning onto a taxiway 😒
So the question is, is the problem really worth attacking, since nobody claims their Round gear performs like an RV8 or a Panther with flat gear ?
 
i went with the idea of fly it first and find out how it behaves. some shimmy some don't. I ended up putting wooden dampers in, but some don't need it.

bob burns
RV-4 N82RB
 
I had long legs with the wooden dampers on my -4 and it would still shimmy if my tire pressure was above about 37 psi. I kept it at 35 psi - no shimmy at all.
 
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