How To Fix TAIL WHEEL SHIMMY! - Pt.2 - 4k | Aviat Husky Tailwheel Adjustment

Well I'll welcome back your little skunk, what we're going to do now is make some

adjustment

s to this sloppy

tail

wheel

, as you can probably imagine that that would move pretty well, there's a lot of lean on it, so This thing came in for its annual release, but it's a recently purchased airplane and you can see we're making a lot of improvements to it as well, so I was actually quite impressed that the spring action is pretty tight right now. That's not bad, it's a little loose, but it's actually not bad, so what we're going to do is select it backwards, that's not good, so let's let it go too far before it crashes, so let's go to work on that a little.

In the meantime, I'm going to check the bearings or the bushings and all that stuff, a new

tail

, otherwise, but just sloppy, and then we'll take a link here because I like it. These are a little tighter with the

husky

here. I've tried loose from left to right, but I like it a lot better now that your clutch has a little bit of play, but not too much, so what we're going to do is "When removing, check all the bushings and then we'll remove the pin down here , tighten it up. I'm going to back up. Well, look too, this is the lock nut or the lock plate that goes on the back and goes into the fork, there's a little slot in the fork. it goes in so it has to be positioned correctly and then what it does is prevent the shaft from actually turning.

See the shaft can't turn at all and that prevents the shaft from floating freely in the deal and I see a lot of guys break them or not. putting them in correctly, that's pretty critical because it will cause premature wear on the hubs, as you can see on the inside of the

wheel

here there's a hub right here, that's the hub itself, so we take it out, look at the bearings there, They have a lot of grease on them and the bushing looks pretty good, it doesn't look worn, the face doesn't look screwed up or anything, so it's pretty good.

I like to turn it around. Look at it. That little grass there, that red grease cap, looks pretty good. Nowhere. Look inside. There is no place here. You can see it well. So we can take it and We'll add fat to it later, but we can take that and we can put all this aside, so we'll put all this aside like this, so this is where we are, don't pay attention to the springs, but we're looking at the breakup. that's pretty good, a little loose, so what we're going to do is tighten it until it bottoms out, count two, let's see where we are, it's half right, so it's half a turn before it bottoms out, not bad, like that which you can see if it's completely tight it doesn't move at all, so actually that's where I usually start with half a turn, so we're not too far from where exactly we want to be, so we're going to go half a turn. of a curve that's right there we're going to test to see how it separates a little bit, yeah, a little bit more, but it's still a little bit loose, so what we're going to do now is just add like an eighth. of a twist to look like this I always like to put new pins.

I realized they put this in incorrectly so now we need to look and see if we can find the hole and it's right in the middle so I'm going to have to work on that until I get to the next one because you don't want it too tight it's better to be a slightly loose mount than too tight and it looks like it lines up pretty well with the hole there so once you put the cotter pin in and then we'll find out everything will be fine, it's a little bit tighter and it does loosen up a little bit on one side, but okay, your wall, everything is separated and I can make the final

adjustment

s.

However, I'm going to go ahead and address the spring plates, now let me apologize for the spring cables and then I'll attach the wheel. I'm going to try everything to make it the way I want and finally I will do it. I'll bend the cotter pins when we're done, I'll see where I have my head against them and I have to pull the springs like this, now that we get it out, now all the fun part begins, look, you have to do it. getting this down here is not an easy way to do it because what happens is okay, this is taken out like this, there's no problem there, so we're going to take it out and then you're going to take it out over there like this and that's going to be taken there and then you're going to hook it up. through the next one that's right here and it exits and then we have to get rid of that link, can't we guess what it just opens?

I don't need to cut it, piece of cake, slide it up, this is It's not hard, I've seen people cut them and play with them and all kinds of crazy stuff and it's just not that hot. Put your head against it and relax a little. Put that back there, bang boom, done. Back there, one down, one to go, piece of cake, what I like is that the hole here is in the place where you can see it like this and then what we want to do is make sure we've gone. go ahead and fold it in the back so it doesn't get caught on every piece of grass that goes by, we're going to go ahead and put it like this and then there's a little trick here too where you take your socket wrench and you tighten it enough so that the wheel not turning, what does that do, compress the bushings into place, make sure the bearings are pressed into place, do that now, back off, usually start about half a turn from there and roll fine. and smooth, we could actually go a little further and it just rolls nice and smooth and has a little bit of play and that keeps the bushings from compressing and wearing out, that's the trick for the rear wheel now. we start looking to see where it lines up like that, look at that, that's always like new and we didn't damage anything, break anything and we have extra chain links if we need them one day and that's a really nice look so far it's nice and tight, It breaks where it is supposed to last a long time, making the owner very satisfied.