Brief Description: Cut brass bushing and cut large push rods
There is a brass bushing that the main bell crank bolt has to go through. It is supposed to be 1/64th to 1/32nd longer than the tube in the bell crank itself. The bushings were just a bit too long; I placed them in the drill press like a drill bit and ran them down on a fine file until they were the correct length. Essentially the bushing goes in the bell crank tube and the bolt goes through the bushing. The bolt will hold the bushing in place and allow the bell crank to rotate around the bushing. I now need to ream out the center of the bushing to ¼” so that the AN4 bolt will fit, I am not sure why they just did not supply a bushing that was already ¼ ID, oh well.
The next thing I tackled was to cut the 1.125” aluminum tube for the large push rods that run to the cockpit. I first needed to get a pipe cutter; I could not find the one I know I have. I cut the long pipe in half as a test to see how the pipe cutter would work. It works great but you can’t crank it down very hard otherwise it will deform the end of the tube just a bit. I just let the cutter do the work and turned it down a quarter turn little by little. The bearing holder will fit snuggly so for now I am not going to test fit them for fear they will get stuck. For now the rods are cut to size but that is all.
