Have Vans send you a new one if it is binding up because of the bellcrank bore.Any advice?
Had my DAR take a look. The brass bushing (tube) is slightly bowed. Same problem with replacement tubes. By rotating the bushing in place we found a position that allowed free movement for that part of the arc that the bell crank needs to travel. Still binds up beyond that.
Any one else have this problem? When I tork them down (85 inch/lbs) they bind up severely. The bellcrank is shorter than the brass bushing and even when they bind I can slide them up and down the bolt.
Any advice?
If this is a brass bushing inside the weldment it is caused by the ends of the brass bushings not being square. When the bolt is tightened the brass bushing bows
I had a problem with mine binding once it rotated past a certain amount. Vans said to sand the interior but that didn't seem to help. I ordered a new one and a new bushing to see how those work. I was thinking that my bushings might not be square on the ends. I sanded them to final length on my HF 1" belt sander so they probably aren't perfectly square on the ends.
I may try to rig up some sort of fence thing to keep it square. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with my problem but hopefully with the options I now have with the new parts I can get it to work correctly.
Another contributor to sticky bushings is over torquing the bolt, literally squeezing the bushing into the steel bellcrank tube. The OP was applying 85 in/lb to the bolt (mis-reading torque values in section 5.2), AN365- 1/4" nylocks should be torqued to 50 to 70 in/lb.