Procedure for the change of wheel main landing gear?

Usual procedure for changing wheel (generic):

1) Jack wheel up (often you´ll use an air powered jack and just take the air from the old tyre). At the same time it will deflate the tyre (necessary for safety reasons)

2) remove hub cap

3) Remove safety bolt on axle nut

4) remove axle nut

5) remove axle washer (if installed, the A300-600 doesn´t use them)

6) put on axle thread protector

7) set parking brake

8) depending on size of wheel either slide old wheel off by hand or use wheel trolley

9) clean axle and axle spacer of old grease and inspect axle and brake unit for damage

10) put a little high temperature grease on bearing surfaces of axle and spacer (we use Grease

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11) Reinstall axle spacer

12) slide on new wheel

13) Install axle washer and loosely install axle nut

14) release parking brake

15) while one person turns the wheel, the other person pretorques the axle nut (to set the

bearings)

16) release axle nut

17) while one person turns the wheel torque axle nut to final torque

18) Install and safety safety bolt.

19) install hub cap

20) Check tyre pressure

21) dejack plane

22) do paperwork and sign off in log book.