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C180 Governor Control Rigging

Is the rod end supposed to nearly touch the bottom of the governor at the full forward position? Tried adjusting the arm. Tried adjusting the length of the control a bit, but you really don't have too margin to move it back and forth. In fact, I needed to make it as short as possible, so the rod end is screwed all the way in.
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Re: C180 Governor Control Rigging

No. It should definitely no touch. Control cables (Mix, throttle, prop) must hit their stops w/o interference. I have come across this on 180s before. You will have to remove material inside the swing of the bracket so that the entire swing arm can move further.
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Re: C180 Governor Control Rigging

You mean increase the curved 'track' on the propeller control arm? Or, oval-ize the hole where the rod end attaches?
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Re: C180 Governor Control Rigging

Have you tried moving the arm one tooth on the governor?
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Re: C180 Governor Control Rigging

Halestorm wrote:Have you tried moving the arm one tooth on the governor?

You mean re-indexing the governor arm itself one spline over. Thinking about that now.
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Re: C180 Governor Control Rigging

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Halestorm wrote:Have you tried moving the arm one tooth on the governor?

You mean re-indexing the governor arm itself one spline over. Thinking about that now.


Only if the fine pitch stop isn’t incorporated into the arm, that could screw things up.
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Re: C180 Governor Control Rigging

C180_guy wrote: Is the rod end supposed to nearly touch the bottom of the governor at the full forward position? .....


I don't see the problem here.
The key word of course is "nearly".
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