Steve Pierce
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I have been rebuilding an aluminum spar wing from a J3 that was damaged in a tornado recently. Unfortunately all the damage wasn't caused by the tornado. The tornado bent the rear spar however the bend and illegal spar splice at the lift strut fitting on the front spar necessitated it to be replaced also along with a lot of previously repaired ribs that were rather scary looking. I have the wing together with new leading edges and false spars. My dilemma is the aileron balance cable. The cable runs from the wing root through fairleads at each compression strut as depicted in the part manual however when it gets to the last rib inboard of the aileron pulley attached to the front spar. It wants to rub the first truss in the rib. The aileron pulley bracket had been bent up by the previous installer. I looked at the other wing and the capstrip is notched to keep the cable from rubbing. I can remedy the interference by moving the fairleads aft on the compression struts. Previously they were all positioned as far forward as they could go. Has anyone else had this problem? I will take a picture and post it tomorrow.
Thanks.
Steve
Thanks.
Steve
