67MK Larry
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Anyone removed old bushing and installed new one in contol stick. Looking for options. Thanks
Not yet, but I hope when I do it will take the slop I hear and feel out of the elevator movement in the stick.
It's more likely that the slop is in the elevator bellcrank bearing. Fairly common and it doesn't take much to be able to hear a little "click". Took me forever to isolate it. Lots of checking rod end bearings and pushrod clearances. Of course, then the veterans told me "Yeah, they do that. Don't worry about it."
I didnt go far enough, /there us a lot more play in left stick vs right stick. When I did condition inspection last year, with floor boards pulled you can see the excess play at stick. Vans said its the bushing and I purchased bush and new bolt. My question is, what is best way to get old out and pressing new in. I have never done something this small before, Im thinking abor press with bolt or rod slighlty smaller than bushing od and carefull pushing out, thinking I shoulheat the stick with heat gun first. Any suggestions would be appreciated. We checked the rest of control system at annual, everything else was tight. 1994 RV-6A 560 hours ttaf. Going to replace nose fork and shaft at same time, not looking forward to this. Thanks Larry
<<just changing the bolts to NAS close tolerance bolts can take out a few 0.001's of an inch and make a difference.>>
If the bolt is an axle....and it is not supposed to be an axle. Bearing centers should be clamped.