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The Little Arrow That Could
Trying to figure out what happened...
Yesterday I did a flight to go fuel-up at an airport ~40 mins away. I did a preflight and tires all looked good/felt good. Same with landing and post-land taxi.
After parking at the self-serve fuel pump for 10 minutes I come back out and the nose wheel tire is flat. I ended up overnighting it on the FBO couch, mech came out in AM and replaced tube.
Last October I replaced all tires and tubes, I got goodyear tires and leak guard tubes. The tires have about 130 landings on them and minimal wear.
Any speculation as to what would cause this? There's no indication on the tire of any damage, and no foreign debris that was found. Mech just drew a circle around where he found the leak.
I thought I bought good quality tubes, but maybe not? IDK.
(and a special thanks to David who came up from Indy with tools to try and help me take a look at it!)
Exhibit A: damaged nose wheel tube...
Yesterday I did a flight to go fuel-up at an airport ~40 mins away. I did a preflight and tires all looked good/felt good. Same with landing and post-land taxi.
After parking at the self-serve fuel pump for 10 minutes I come back out and the nose wheel tire is flat. I ended up overnighting it on the FBO couch, mech came out in AM and replaced tube.
Last October I replaced all tires and tubes, I got goodyear tires and leak guard tubes. The tires have about 130 landings on them and minimal wear.
Any speculation as to what would cause this? There's no indication on the tire of any damage, and no foreign debris that was found. Mech just drew a circle around where he found the leak.
I thought I bought good quality tubes, but maybe not? IDK.
(and a special thanks to David who came up from Indy with tools to try and help me take a look at it!)
Exhibit A: damaged nose wheel tube...