I need to shim the wheels on Harmon Rocket that has the larger, 380/150 tires.
The outside wore pretty bad and rotated them at 50 hours. I ran two 1" angle irons on the inside of the tires towards the front of the aircraft. I put both wheels on two greased plates and filled wings full of fuel and added 200 lbs of lead shot to front seat. Here are my measurements:
Inside measurement between brake linings was 74.25" wide.
Measured forward from center of tire and put a mark at 68"
I did this to both tires and the measurement between the two points out in front and it was 69" wide. A difference of 5.25" at the 68" mark. Assuming both wheels are equally toed in, I came up with the tires each about 2.5 degrees of toe in.
Do my measurements add up?
Should I mark the centerline of the plane and do each wheel on its own?
Vans and grove both sell shims. If the wheels are 2.5" out of toe would I put the two 1" shims plus a Half inch shim on each wheel?
Y'all please go easy on me if I did this all wrong
Thanks
The outside wore pretty bad and rotated them at 50 hours. I ran two 1" angle irons on the inside of the tires towards the front of the aircraft. I put both wheels on two greased plates and filled wings full of fuel and added 200 lbs of lead shot to front seat. Here are my measurements:
Inside measurement between brake linings was 74.25" wide.
Measured forward from center of tire and put a mark at 68"
I did this to both tires and the measurement between the two points out in front and it was 69" wide. A difference of 5.25" at the 68" mark. Assuming both wheels are equally toed in, I came up with the tires each about 2.5 degrees of toe in.
Do my measurements add up?
Should I mark the centerline of the plane and do each wheel on its own?
Vans and grove both sell shims. If the wheels are 2.5" out of toe would I put the two 1" shims plus a Half inch shim on each wheel?
Y'all please go easy on me if I did this all wrong
Thanks