raymoeller
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Greetings all, and hope this finds you all doing well. I continue to work on flying off my Phase 1, however I have encountered a small problem. During my last preflight, I discovered the piece of tire sidewall I used as the landing gear bumper on my Skybolt in the belly of the airplane. Appears that the adhesive stuck fine to the rubber, but lost its adhesion to the bottom of the landing gear truss. I would really hate to cut bungees that have been on the plane less than a year in order to open a gap between the top tubes of the gear and the truss, so I'm wondering if anyone has ever successfully splayed the landing gear before without removing the bungees. I have a 540 up front and 3 of the heavy duty cords on each side, and the last thing I want to do is bend the gear mounting tabs exerting force improperly. If I have to cut them, I have to cut them.. but I'd much rather not, but I also can't let the steel on steel contact go. Thanks!