My landing gear has sort of flattened out a bit. It isn't too bad, but both main wheels run at a slight camber rather than vertical. I pulled the tie down pieces and cannot seem to remove the gear struts from the blocks to manually rebend them. I am afraid that if I bend them in the blocks, I'll do some damage.

What is the best way to get a little height back here? Or should I just leave it alone? The tail rides about 3 inches or so off the ground. Doesn't allow for much pitch error on landing.


Thanks.

I believe that you can rebend the gear back to original shape by hand with no damage to the fuselage.
Just place your thumbs over the bends, so the stress does not pass to the fuselage.

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I'd forgotten that I had your same problem. Seems that the LGneeded tweeked after each and every landing (soft or not-so-soft). I had to toss a couple of props as there was precious little clearance if Idid not pull the gear together before each flight. My solution was to upgrade the OEMLGwith a Great Planes .60 Dural gear. Down side was that I needed to go to the parts bin to replace the nose gear as the original was not long enough for the new LG. Ibelieve that I replaced it with an old SIGKadet Sr. ARFnose gear. Perhaps you could bend the GPLGto increase its width and lower the overall height.

GP also makes 40 size gear as well, those GP aluminum gear work well, but also will flex a bit on landing depending on how hard you set it down

Great Planes has 2 different sized Dural .60 landing gear. I used the large (<font size="-1">GPMQ1840). The small (</font><font size="-1">GPMQ1830) is 1/2" shorter than the large. The .40 is 3/4" shorter than the large. But, hey, the LT-40 is a 60 size plane. My LT-40 lights up the scales at 7 lb.
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