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New nosewheel modification

mikelupo

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Looks like Van's updated the nosewheel drawings as of August 2020.
Has anyone retrofitted this yet? The entire axle has changed on drawing 46-10.

What's got me taking a deep dive here is that during my conditional, we discovered the nose wheel fork has some gouging from the spacers rotating against the fork (Presuming that this is from the original design). As a result, the nosewheel shimmies and clunks because the conical bearings don't seat tightly in the wheel due to this wear.
Curious... if you encountered this, what did you do about it?
 

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I didn't encounter it - I did the Matco front axle upgrade and (hopefully, unless I shear an anti-rotation bolt) won't ever have to. I'd recommend you consider it at this point.

Full disclosure - my nose wheel has a whopping 5 hours on it. It came off last week for installation of helicoils in the Allen screw holes (preventive measure) and was pristine when disassembled - "imagine my shawk!" :p
 
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