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Bungee Installation Tool System (BITS) Instructions
Congratulations, you have purchased the best Comanche
bungee tool available. For those aircraft mechanics who
have struggled with earlier tools, rest assured that from now
on changing bungees is going to be easier, quicker, and
safer.
Note- when removing the old bungees it is not
recommended to cut them or to use a pry bay in order to
remove them. The easiest and safest manner to remove the
old bungees is to use the installer tool.
Installer Tool
To remove the old bungees:
1. Put the plane on jacks and secure the tail in a suitable
manner.
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Summary of Contents for Comanche BITS
- Page 1 Bungee Installation Tool System (BITS) Instructions Congratulations, you have purchased the best Comanche bungee tool available. For those aircraft mechanics who have struggled with earlier tools, rest assured that from now on changing bungees is going to be easier, quicker, and safer.
- Page 2 2. Remove the bungee access inspection panel behind and slightly outboard of the main landing gear wheel well. The landing gear bungee arm, pulley, and the inboard portion of the bungee are now in plain view. 3. Either with an assistant in the cockpit or by reaching through the storm window raise the landing gear slightly by putting the gear switch in the up position and intermittently bumping the master switch.
- Page 3 8. Pull the inboard part of the tool toward you. The bungee is now engaged on the tool and free of the inboard pulley on the landing gear bungee arm. 9. Grasp the bungee tool and the bungee and turn them counterclockwise (as viewed from the inboard end of the tool) until the bolt on the outboard pulley bracket is unscrewed from the nut plate.
- Page 4 3. Place the inboard end of the bungee over the fixed bungee post of the stretching tool, seating the bungee into the groove on the post as you expand the stretcher tool. See next step. 4. Using a suitable tool (a socket wrench, an electric drill, an impact wrench with a ¾”...
- Page 5 the stretched bungee. Extend the installer tool to align the ring pin holes and re-insert the ring pin. 8. Screw the hex drive clockwise to retract the outboard arm, which will engage the bungee cord onto the installer tool. You can now unfasten the bolt from the outboard bungee arm.
- Page 6 (with its 17 screws) than to replace the bungees themselves. These two tools should make changing the bungees on a Comanche virtually a pleasure. There is no step in this process that will require any real upper body strength as with some previous tools, and safety and ease of use have been greatly improved.
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