Piper SARATOGA PA-32-301 Maintenance Manual page 252

PIPER AIRCRAFT
PA-32-301/301T
MAINTENANCE MANUAL
M. Install the lower and upper selector covers and secure with screws.
N. Install the floor panel aft of the main spar and secure with screws. Install the seat belt
attachments and seats.
O. Install the cover and carpet of the aft floor tunnel.
2. Either aft stabilator control cable may be installed by the following procedure:
A. Route the cable under pulley.
B. Connect the cable to the stabilator balance weight tube and secure with bolt, washer, nut and
cotter pin. (Tighten nut "finger tight' only.)
C. Connect the cable to the forward cable at the turnbuckle in the aft section of the fuselage. The
upper aft cable connects to the right forward cable and the lower cable to the left cable.
D. Install the cable guard pin at the pulley.
E. Set cable tension and check rigging and adjustment per Rigging and Adjustment of Stabilator
Controls.
3. Install the access panels to the aft section of the fuselage.
RIGGING AND ADJUSTMENT OF STABILATOR CONTROLS.
1. To check and set the correct degree of stabilator travel, the following procedure may be used:
A. Level the airplane. (Refer to Leveling, Chapter 8.)
B. Place the stabilator in neutral position. Neutral position is obtained when a level placed on
stabilator rigging tool (Figure 27-16) indicates that stabilator is parallel with the top of the front seat track
noted in Figure 27-16.
C. Check the stabilator travel by placing a rigging tool on the upper surface of the stabilator as
shown in Figure 27-16. (This tool may be fabricated from dimensions given in Chapter 95.)
D.
Set on a bubble protractor the number of degree up travel as given in Figure 27-16 and place it on
the rigging tool. Raise the trailing edge of the stabilator and determine that when the stabilator contacts its
stops, the bubble of the protractor is centered.
-NOTE-
The stabilator should contact both of its stops before the control
wheel contacts its stops.
E. Set on the protractor the number of degrees down travel as given in Figure 27-16 and again place
it on the rigging tool. Lower the trailing edge of the stabilator and determine that when it contacts its stops. the
bubble of the protractor is centered.
F.
Should the stabilator travel be incorrect in either the up or down position, remove the tailcone
fairing by removing the attachment screws and with the use of the rigging tool and bubble protractor turn the
stops located at each stabilator hinge in or out to obtain the correct degree of travel. (Refer to Figure 27-17.)
G. Ascertain that the locknuts of the stop screws are secure and then reinstall the tailcone fairing.
2. To check and set stabilator control cable tension, the following procedure may be used:
A. Ascertain that the stabilator travel is correct.
B. Remove the access panel to the aft section of the fuselage and tailcone fairing.
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