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Anyone familiar with the cable routing through the triple pulleys under the floor? Don’t have access to my drawings and can’t tell from the parts manual if the cable from the elevator upper horn goes through the middle or right side pulleys.
Finally found the relevant drawing. Left pulley is identified as "flap," middle and right pulleys only say "elevator" so I guess it's dealer's choice. Since the upper horn cable goes left of center once it leaves the rearmost pulley I put it along the center pulleys.
I'm sorry I said right but I think it could be the middle pulley since the picture shows the cable going higher off the pulley. Yes center makes better sense.
Looking at the parts catalog p105 Fig 35, the middle pulley is described as the 'flap cable control'.
On p99, fig 33, the two outer pulleys are just described as 'pulleys'.
All the same p/n, of course.
From that, you wouldn't think it would matter which way the elevator cables go, as long as they don't cross over, and the flap is on the centre. I should have the hell hole open this afternoon, and I'll see how mine is set up.
I checked mine today. When I did the rebuild, I replaced the flap cable as I found it, and it is on the left, too. If I'd read the parts manual back then, I'd have put it in the centre!
When I disassembled the a/c for the rebuild, I found the elevator cables wrapped around themselves and quietly sawing away. It must have been like that for the 12 years after being imported and reassembled --not that it flew much in that time (fortunately).
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Elevator cable routing
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