Main Wheel Removal; Wing Tip Height Adjustment - Cessna 177 SERIES Service Manual

3. Reverse preceding steps to install brake
1. Remove brake fairing (if installed) as out-
fairing.
lined in step "a".
b.
To remove cover plate (8), proceed as follows:
2.
Remove screws attaching cover plate (8) to
1. Remove screws attaching cover plate to strut
spring strut fairing.
fairing (7).
Remove bolts attaching cover plate to
3.
Remove fuselage fairing (6) as outlined in
strut fitting (9) and spring strut (18); remove cover step "c".
plate.
4. Remove screws from nutplates along spring
2. Reverse procedures in step "1" to install
strut fairing.
cover plate.
5.
Spring fairing over tubular spring strut.
c.
To remove fuselage fairing, proceed as follows:
6.
Reverse preceding steps to install strut fair-
1. Remove screws attaching fairing (6) to fuse- ing.
lage.
2. Slide fairing down spring strut fairing (7).
5-8. MAIN WHEEL REMOVAL.
(Refer to figure
3. Reverse preceding steps to install fuselage 5-4.)
fairing.
d.
To remove spring strut fairing (7), proceed as
follows:
OUTBOARD LANDING
GEAR FITTING---
SPRING STRUT
t/1 ^ ^ IX /- ADJUSTMENT BUSHING
I7
iRETAINER
SPECIAL
THRU 17701720
SPECIAL TOOL #S. E. 876, USED TO
TURN ECCENTRIC BUSHINGS IN
LANDING GEAR TO LEVEL WINGS
Height adjustment bushing shown in normal position. To raise right wing tip, rotate
bushing one hole. 60 degrees counterclockwise.
To lower the wing tip , rotate
bushing one hole, 60 degrees clockwise.
For the right side adjusting bushing, rotate height adjustment bushing one hole, 60
degrees clockwise, to raise the wing tip.
To lower the wing tip, rotate the bushing
one hole, 60 degrees counterclockwise.
Figure 5-3. Wing Tip Height Adjustment
Change 6 5-5