Help...Gear Won't Come Up

[Bob Cook]

Ernie

First of all try pumping the doors down manually and when fully extended turn the power on and see if the doors come back up.

IF they do .......great..

Now then check the squat switch and make sure it goes to the gear up position when you put weight on the tail and let the oleo extend. make sure your undercarriage is four fingers dialated <G>.

It probably is due to either a broken wire on the nose gear squat switch.

Last but not least make sure you have a good battery connection. that motor draws a lot of power and if you do not have battery capacity to assist the alternators, the alternators alone is not enough power to get the gear moving. This could have caused the undervoltage light to fire and would probably trip the breaker as well.

Let me know the results and i will try and help you from here.

btw there is little drag with the gear down. just fly it back and don't bother with trying to play with it. Remember you need lots of strokes with the manual pump if you are going to try it.



Bob