The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Bruce Fenstermacher wrote:Wow a really cool card board box. To bad that somebody put that darn tailwheel on top and crushed it in a little. It's salvageable though I think. What you going to do with it Ed?

Maybe I'll bring it for the convention auction, it has some really neat Aircraft Spruce & Specialty tape on it.

Cool, I'll start saving up.

Be sure to fill that thing up with grease so that it oozes out. I hear that really helps the friction plates and improves the performance and longevity of your tailwheel.

Ryan Smith wrote:Be sure to fill that thing up with grease so that it oozes out. I hear that really helps the friction plates and improves the performance and longevity of your tailwheel.

For sure! That tail wheel is WAY to clean to put on your 170, Ed!

The documentation from ABI says to keep your hands off and not to go cramming more grease into it, they took care of all that at the factory. I'm hesitant to go flying and get it all nasty.

Aryana wrote:Ed, that is purdy...Ryan was just being sarcastic. No better way to ruin a perfectly good tailwheel than blindly pumping it full of grease!

I was. I have been wrestling with the mechanics at my field about the tailwheel on "my" airplane. Because I don't own it, I'm often ignored. The last time after they replaced the pawl spring, the tailwheel was pumped with about ten pumps of grease...so much that it ran out through the steering arm slots and all over the top of the tire.

Thankfully, no issues in the last 20 hours, but it's been messy trying to clean up.

Ryan Smith wrote:

Aryana wrote:Ed, that is purdy...Ryan was just being sarcastic. No better way to ruin a perfectly good tailwheel than blindly pumping it full of grease!

I was. I have been wrestling with the mechanics at my field about the tailwheel on "my" airplane. Because I don't own it, I'm often ignored. The last time after they replaced the pawl spring, the tailwheel was pumped with about ten pumps of grease...so much that it ran out through the steering arm slots and all over the top of the tire.

Thankfully, no issues in the last 20 hours, but it's been messy trying to clean up.

I knew you were just screwing with me Ryan...I've been hearing about the grease thing in like .....forever. I will limit the grease and Hopefully this wheel will last me for as long as I'll ever need one.

Ed's no newby guys! He knows his way around a 170. Not to mention the RVs he's built too. But we gotta give him a little BS about anything that clean and shiny!

Kyle Wolfe wrote:Ed's no newby guys! He knows his way around a 170. Not to mention the RVs he's built too. But we gotta give him a little BS about anything that clean and shiny!

Ed's only owned 25A for 45 years. He's still a spring chicken...you know, in the grand scheme of things.

Ryan Smith wrote:

Kyle Wolfe wrote:Ed's no newby guys! He knows his way around a 170. Not to mention the RVs he's built too. But we gotta give him a little BS about anything that clean and shiny!

Ed's only owned 25A for 45 years. He's still a spring chicken...you know, in the grand scheme of things.

I think it's more like a late fall or early winter chicken.

I don't need to lube my tailwheel because there is enough oil from the engine back there to take care of it
That tailwheel looks like Coat's does all the time