CR-MM-1-0-00
PS-28 Cruiser
PS-28N Cruiser
CHAPTER 8 – LANDING GEAR
Date of issue: 2013-10-09
Revision No.: 7
8 - 21
8.5 Changes / Service information
8.5.1 Tire change
Type of maintenance: line
Authorization to perform:
-
Sport pilot or higher
Tools needed:
-
wrench size 1/2 in
-
Allen wrench size 1/4 in
(a) Jack and support the airplane (see 14.2).
(b) Remove the wheel fairing (see 8.3.1 / 8.3.5).
(c) Remove the main landing gear wheel (see 8.3.3) or the nose landing gear wheel
(see 8.3.7).
(d) Deflate the tire.
(e) Unscrew the bolts (1, Fig. 8-16).
(f) Set apart both halves of the rim (1; 2) and remove the tire (10) with the air tube (11).
(g) Exchange the air tube or the tire, if necessary.
(h) Put the air tube (11) into the tire (10) and inflate it slightly.
(i) Put the inner tube on that half of the rim, which has the hole for the valve.
(j) Put the other half of the rim on this unit. Join both halves of the rim with bolts – torque value
11.3 Nm (
100 in lbs
).
(k) Inflate tires to the prescribed pressure:
- nose wheel 1.2 + 0.1 bar (
17.4 + 1.5 psi
)
- main wheel 1.8 + 0.2 bar (
26.1 + 2.9 psi
)
(l) Mark position of the rim and the tire by redline overreaching about 10 mm (3/8 in) to the rim
and the tire (serves for checking the tire slewing against the wheel rim in operation).
