BC- 12D tailwheel spring

[Jim K]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

Here is picture of my tailwheel. Springs looks same as in your picture but gap behind my spacer is about two inches and caster angle is toward rear.

[Pearson]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

Maybe a picture will help. Most of the set ups I have seen have a larger gap behind the spacer in the middle leaf at the forward bolt. Photo credit goes to Rob Lees.

[astjp2]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

Jim, you can email it to me at [email protected] or you can post it by the bottom blue button that says "reply to thread". Once there, go advanced button, then attach the file for the pic. Tim

[Jim K]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

Tim, I have a close up picture of the spring I would like for you to look at but not sure how to send a picture. Maybe you can tell me. It has the spacer but two leaves bolt to the tailwheel. Thanks for your help. Jim

[astjp2]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

I have dropped my tail, hold the handle and dropped it to check the spring, It only bounced about 1", its a fairly rigid system. Do you have the spacers correct? There is a small 1.25" square block that goes through the foreward bolt, and there is a short spring that is mounted from the tailwheel and goes foreward an is in the same layer as the spacer. Hope this helps. Tim

[Jim K]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

I have a Lang D-501 A that came on the plane. Steering is sensitive but handles well and no shimmy. I am mainly concerned about the stiffness of the spring.

[astjp2]

Re: BC- 12D tailwheel spring

I have the univair spring, I had to drill it out to 1/2" to get my scott 3200 to mount correctly. What tail wheel do you have? I had it with a maule also and after a few ground loops from the tailwheel failures I went with the 3200. Tim

[Jim K]

I recently bought a 1946 BC-12D that obviously had the wrong tailwheel spring and replaced it with one I ordered from Univair which is supposed to be a factory copy. This spring set is about a foot shorter and is so stiff that it has no flex at all and the caster angle is towards the rear. There is not another Taylorcraft here to compare it with. Does anyone have this same spring set? Maybe this is correct.