Nose wheels suck! Lol. A little further down on this forum you'll see my conversion on did on my pt40 to a tail dragger. I got fed up with it this weekend. Nose wheel slipped once, and sent me into shrub. Then slipped again on next take off, but managed to gt it airborn before the shrubs this time. Monday it did the same thing, and caused a belly flop on take off cause I was trying to horse it off the runway before the weeds. It was behaving ok till I got new engine and had to move the steering arm to make it clear the needle valve on the new engine, but just way to much trouble. Also could never get it setup right to track straight, and adjusting it was a pain as I had to remove the engine to get at the set screw. I'm done with nose gears, unless i get a scale that needs it, then I'll put a lot of time into thinking how to set it up to be as trouble free as I can manage.
-John