{"id":403,"date":"2013-12-15T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T02:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T02:32:12","slug":"installed-rudder-pedal-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/12\/15\/installed-rudder-pedal-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed Rudder Pedal Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished fabricating the rudder pedal links and then powder coated them matte black. \u00a0Here they are in my small toaster oven curing.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I installed these for good and cotter-pinned them. \u00a0I didn’t get a picture of it, but I also reinstalled the cotter pins in the top mounting bolts of the brake master cylinders and tightened the jam nuts.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the right side. \u00a0I tightened the rear bolt tight enough that the links won’t pivot relative to the cable fitting, so the only pivot point is at the rudder pedals. \u00a0Otherwise, the weight of the links and bolt would cause the aft joint to sag which would make it more likely to catch on something. \u00a0This way, it’s essentially just an extension of the cable fitting.<\/p>\n

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Before wrapping up for the evening, I installed the adel clamps that anchor the fuel tank vent lines to the bracket that ties the firewall angle to the longerons. \u00a0You can see the adel clamp in the lower left corner of this picture. \u00a0Getting these on was more of a pain than I expected. \u00a0I had to remove almost all of the padding on the footwell floor and lay across the spar on my back with my head pressed into the rudder pedals. \u00a0It took me nearly 30 minutes to install these two screws!<\/p>\n

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I finished fabricating the rudder pedal links and then powder coated them matte black. \u00a0Here they are in my small toaster oven curing. Finally, I installed these for good and cotter-pinned them. \u00a0I didn’t get a picture of it, but I also reinstalled the cotter pins in the top mounting bolts of the brake master … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}