Piper SARATOGA PA-32-301 Maintenance Manual page 264

PIPER AIRCRAFT
PA-32-301/301T
MAINTENANCE MANUAL
Figure 27-23. Flap Step Adjustment
4. Check cable tension and adjust if required to remove all slack. Do not tighten cable to the point that
the stop screw comes off the stop.
5. Place a 0.125 of an inch thick spacer between the right hand stop screw and stop fitting. With flap,
installed and control rods connected. determine that when down pressure is applied on top of the flap. it will
not cause the flap to come down. If the flap extends (comes down under pressure). turn the stop screws out a
few turns until the flap remains in the up-lock position with the spacer inserted. Adjust both stop screws.
tighten jam nuts and remove the spacer block.
6. Tochecktheup-neutralpositionoftheflapsplace
a flapriggingtoolasshowninFigure27-25 against
the underside of the wing and flap as close as possible to the outboard end of the flap without contacting any
rivets. (Refer to Chapter 95 for dimensions to fabricate this tool.) The tool must be positioned parallel with the
wing ribs. with the aft end of the tool even with the trailing edge of the flap.
7. With the flap control rods connected between the torque tube crank arm and flaps: check that the
surface of the wing contacts the tool at its forward surface and at the spacer. and the aft end of the flap contacts
the aft end of the tool. Maintain a light pressure on the underside of the flap to remove slack in the linkage
while making this check.
8. If required adjust each flap push rod so that the chord line of the flap forms a zero degree 1
angle
with the wing chord at the outboard end of the flap. This is the neutral position.
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