Aft Rudder Cable Fairleads
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:19 pm
Replaced my rudder cables and trying to get the fairleads back in place. Does anyone have any tips or tricks? I've dropped them a couple times and have to crawl in the tail as far as I can and use a shop vac to retrieve them. Seems less than ideal.
Did a search. I don't think I'm interested in pulling my whole tail off right now. So, that's off the table. Additionally, I've seen two examples of inspection panels cut in as posted in one of the older rudder cable topics...but if I can get these back in, it would negate the need...and that's not a quick fix if it needs to be legal...
Drilling the rivets for the fairlead bracket and replacing with nuts/bolts. This seems to be the "preferred" way to do this - after reading this in a few threads, I went out and looked at mine - the right side appears to be pop-rivets or cherrymax while the left side appears to be original - both old since they're painted over and my paint is ancient.
Any tips or tricks to get these in while they're still riveted in place? If not, and the best option is to drill the rivets out for the brackets, any tips or important info here?
Did a search. I don't think I'm interested in pulling my whole tail off right now. So, that's off the table. Additionally, I've seen two examples of inspection panels cut in as posted in one of the older rudder cable topics...but if I can get these back in, it would negate the need...and that's not a quick fix if it needs to be legal...
Drilling the rivets for the fairlead bracket and replacing with nuts/bolts. This seems to be the "preferred" way to do this - after reading this in a few threads, I went out and looked at mine - the right side appears to be pop-rivets or cherrymax while the left side appears to be original - both old since they're painted over and my paint is ancient.
Any tips or tricks to get these in while they're still riveted in place? If not, and the best option is to drill the rivets out for the brackets, any tips or important info here?