Avid Mark IV nose wheel assembly with main gear

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Want to convert your Avid to a nose wheel? I have a castering nose wheel assembly and the shorter main gear for an Avid Mark IV. Asking $1000 obo The main gear have fairings and are covered. The brake backing plates are a little rough. They could be used the way they are or the backing plates easily replaced. 

 

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Want to convert your Avid to a nose wheel? I have the Fuselage front section and the nose wheel assembly for an Avid Mark IV. Asking $800 for everything.  Cross posted on Barnstormers.

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Much different than mine. When and why did they change the design?

 

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Not sure. I've seen a few of them and they were just like this one. This was on a later model Mark IV.

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Looks similar to the one I removed from my project. I converted to bush gear and tailwheel.

 

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The difference is mine is castering and the one pictured above is steerable.

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The difference is mine is castering and the one pictures above is steerable.

I would guess you have to have individual brakes with a castering nose wheel. Once you get slow enough the air over the rudder won't do much.

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lots of guys swapped over to the RV style castering training wheel.  Seems it was much smoother.

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The difference is mine is castering and the one pictures above is steerable.

I would guess you have to have individual brakes with a castering nose wheel. Once you get slow enough the air over the rudder won't do much.

You are correct. I have the same set up on the Magnum and it handles wonderfully. It steers very easy with very little brake pressure. 

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Make an offer. 

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