ORIGINAL: jbrown

Greetings,

I am having some difficulty with the Dragon retract units (mains).

First, I'm not having very good luck securing the strut post in the trunions. The original struts simply would not not fasten in the trunions solidly, they would rotate at the smallest side load on the wheels. The lower strut also has a tendency to rotate on the scissor clamp(at the most inoportune time). I recently exchanged the struts for Pro-Links hoping they would secure better. I've knurled the strut post and inside of the truntions in hope the trunions would secure the post better. On my last time out one of the Pro-links rotated in the trunion, not completely, but it did come loose enoughso you could rotate it slightly by hand.
Anyone have this same problem? Anyone with a solution to the problem?

The nose gear seems to attach to its trunion solidly, but that is a different strut post (steering).

Secondly, one of the trunions has now split on the bolt head side of the trunion - See attached pictures.
Anyone have this problem?

Is replacing the entire main retract units the solution?

Any ideas for correcting this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Jim