BealeStAviator
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Hey all,
Bottom line up front: My mixture control has full range of motion at the engine, but the lever in the cockpit stops 1" short of forward when running full rich.
Long version: I've noticed a kind of odd setup on my RV-8's throttle quadrant. The mixture lever doesn't go fully to the forward stop. It seems like it runs out of cable an inch or so from what would otherwise be full rich. I say "otherwise" because after checking the engine side of the cable, the mixture control arm moves through its full range of motion and hits both of its stops. The engine appears to be properly calibrated and runs perfectly. It's like I get to full rich but the lever doesn't show it. Idle/cutoff works fine too. Is this a problem then? My thought was that either it was just a sloppy build (I bought it, didn't build it) or it was intentional to get it out of the way of the prop lever, offset it a bit. Alternatively I'm concerned I might be missing something that is potentially dangerous at worst or is costing me some performance at best.
Bottom line up front: My mixture control has full range of motion at the engine, but the lever in the cockpit stops 1" short of forward when running full rich.
Long version: I've noticed a kind of odd setup on my RV-8's throttle quadrant. The mixture lever doesn't go fully to the forward stop. It seems like it runs out of cable an inch or so from what would otherwise be full rich. I say "otherwise" because after checking the engine side of the cable, the mixture control arm moves through its full range of motion and hits both of its stops. The engine appears to be properly calibrated and runs perfectly. It's like I get to full rich but the lever doesn't show it. Idle/cutoff works fine too. Is this a problem then? My thought was that either it was just a sloppy build (I bought it, didn't build it) or it was intentional to get it out of the way of the prop lever, offset it a bit. Alternatively I'm concerned I might be missing something that is potentially dangerous at worst or is costing me some performance at best.