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Door lift cylinder advice

Hi all.

The top door lift for my 1977 P337G N639GC is a bit weak. This causes "door droop" and threatens pre-flight injuries to crew and passengers. It's a small annoyance but a meaningful one. It's a typical gas cylinder but look like it might disassemble and have o-rings and such that could be overhauled.

Best approach? Place to buy a replacement? Overhaul the thing?

Tim
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Hi Tim

Mate it is a very simple OH, there are about 5 small components to replace. They should cost around $25 dollars from Yingling. Just as FYI, they list a new unit at $23,000.

During my rebuild I collected another two units as spares. Follow the maintanence manual as it is a simple OH, when it comes to recharging with nitrogen, mine took 380psi. It should take about 2.5lbs to pull the door down, what I also did was recharged mine so that it would lift the door 80% of the way up, then with a gentle touch it goes the rest of the way to the rubber stop, that way it doesn’t bang against the stop.

I have since rebuilt one of the spares as well, but not re-gassed, takes me approx an hour to rebuild a unit. Don’t touch the gas chamber.

When you pull the shaft out and drain the oil, watch for the little ball bearing that will fall out.

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