Good morning Terry, good to hear from you! I actually thought about running a direct link instead of the springs but then immediately remembered how fragile nose struts can be so I'm sticking with the springs for now. The problem (in my real life influenced imagination) is that if you damage the nose strut and can no longer make the nose strut turn, you also lose rudder control with the direct link setup. With the spring linkage you still have rudder control even with a locked up nose strut. I'm hoping to test fly my 'back to plans' nose wheel set up within a couple of weeks. I'll post the spring numbers here if they work as well flying as they do taxi'ing around between the hangars. Bruce

Hello Mark, I'm in North Branch, about 50 miles straight up I35 from down town Minneapolis. My HB is at Rush City (KROS) maybe another 12 miles north. BTW I taxi tested the nose wheel steering springs mentioned in the original post, they work great! I have the Grainger part number of the springs if you need it for your build. Bruce

Welcome to the new forum n_eyler! 🙂

Toughest part of the winter is right now; its -17F here in Minnesota!