Piper Aztec gear handle didn't snap back to neutral

[Coopere]

Well I went for a flight today, long story short I selected gear down at a grass strip that I wasnt planning on landing at, was just planning for a low level inspection and once the gear cycled down I had 3 green but the gear handle didn't snap back to neutral as normal. I just barely tapped it with my finger and bang it snapped back, I then proceeded to over shoot selected gear and flaps up and everything went back up as usual. I departed the area back to my home base 30min away and again prepared to land, this time everything worked as it normally does.

Last week i went for a flight and their was a very very windy day 45kts or so and I swore that it took a longer time then normal for the handle to snap back to neutral, however I figured due to the wind pushing me in the downwind / base turn I attributed the timing (mental timing) to the fact that my downwind was quick so just figured my mental idea of the time it took to cycle was off. Their was a big wind shear layer at 800agl the wind backed almost 120 degrees

Now I'm not so sure maybe it was taking longer than normal

Last year I had cox airports overhaul the power pack, my amo overhauled all co2 shuttle valves, gear and gear door actuators and the priority valves. I took a look for visible leaks for what I could see and didn't see any.

At my annual (this past feb) we topped the power pack with fluid with it on jacks gear up flaps down

I took a look through my US logs, as I'm Canadian I'm not super familiar with them and what I can tell the engine driven hydraulic pump hasn't been overhauled since new... 49 years old... tt on the aircraft is 2766

Wondering if this is the issue, looks like the previous owners never did it at 1000tt and 2000tt as per the manual

Any thoughts on where to start? Spent a ton last year to prevent stuff like this

Thanks everyone
Eric

 

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