Landing gear

[rmorris]

Have a new issue I need some advice in handling:

Plane is a 1968 Skymaster T337C, s/n 337-0775 Landing gear issue

When I cycle my landing gear up after t/o, it cycles all the way up, but the handle never returns to the neutral positon. After waiting a while, I can pull the handle down to neutral, and then the doors droop back down (verified by fly bys). I can then pump the emerg handle and secure up the gear doors.

I have had all the leaks tracked down and repaired, also put on all new hoses.

On the ground, attached to a mule, the gear cycles up and down with no issue. Handle kicks back down to neutral as expected.

In flight - When putting the gear down, it always cycles down and the handle kicks to neutral.

While the workaround, hand pumping the doors back closed after putting the handle into neutral manually, works - it is not desireable. But it is also not desireable to keep paying mechanics to hook up to their mules and say all is well with the gear system (has happened at several different shops now).