d. Install the engine and connect the controls. (Refer to Installation of Engine, Section Vlll.)
e. Attach hoses, wires and cables to the engine mount tubing. Securing them with clamps, and Korosel
lacing where required
f. Check the rigging of the nose gear per Paragraph 7-12.
g. Remove the airplane from jacks.
h. Install the propeller (refer to Installation of Propeller, Section Vlll) and engine cowl.
i. Install strut fairing.
7-13 ALIGNMENT OF NOSE GEAR.
a. Place the airplane on a smooth level floor that will accommodate the striking of a chalk line.
b. Place the airplane on jacks, (Refer to Jacking, Section 11.)
c. Level the airplane. (Refer to Leveling, Section 11.)
d. From the center of the tail skid, extend a plum bob, and mark the contact point on the floor.
e. Extend a chalk line from the mark on the floor below the tail skid to a point approximately three feet
forward of the nose wheel at the centerline of the tire. Snap the chalk line.
pedals are tilted 14 +3°-1° aft of vertical when in their neutral position.
h. Ascertain that the nose wheel is in alignment with the longitudinal axis of the airplane. (chalk line.)
i. Should the nose wheel require adjustment to bring it into proper alignment, disconnect the rod assemblies
at the steering horn and adjust the nose wheel steering horn stops to contact the steering horn when the nose
wheel is turned 30° ± 1° left and right of center. Center the nose wheel.
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14° + 3° -1°
VERTICAL POSITION
TO SEAT RAIL
Figure 7-3 Clamping Rudder Pedals in Neutral Angle
Figure 7-4 Rudder Pedals at Neutral Angle
PIPER AIRCRAFT
PA-28-161 CADET
AIRPLANE MAINTENANCE MANUAL
Issued: FEBRUARY. 28, 1989
LANDING GEAR AND BRAKE SYSTEM
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