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Maintenance Manual DG-808C
Issued: May 2010 TN800/41 4.21
4.15 Replacement of the engine retaining cable
Please refer to diagram 14.
1. Extend the powerplant.
2. Remove the access panel from the rear engine bay floor.
3. Remove the engine retaining cable from the propeller mount. Let the
cable retract slowly, otherwise the retraction bungee may jump from its
pulley located inside the rear end of the fuselage. The bungee pulley is
accessible via the access hole inside the tailwheel box.
4. Pull out the bungee via the access hole in the rear engine bay floor until
you reach the terminal of the retaining cable.
5. Fix the bungee to the floor to prevent it from disappearing into the
fuselage boom.
6. Cut off the retaining cable and pull it out. Don’t damage the bungee!
Don’t loose the steel washer.
7. Loosen the counter nut and turn out the adjustment screw at the rear
bulkhead as far as possible (anti-clockwise direction). Then turn in the
screw for 5 mm (0.2in.).
8. Push the retaining cable from the front via the adjustment screw through
the rear engine bay bulkhead and pull it out of the access hole.
An absorber element is installed on the adjustment screw. Check if the
washer at the rear end of the absorber is in place and fixed and if the
absorber element is still glued firmly to the adjustment screw, see diagram
14 Detail X.
9. Install the steel washer 5R28/3 on the new cable. Attach the cable with
thimble and 2 Nicopress sleeves to the bungee. Press the Nicopress sleeve,
the end of the cable must be inside the second Nicopress sleeve. and wrap
Tesaband 651 twice around washer and Nicopress sleeves.
10. Let the bungee retract slowly into the aft fuselage.
11. Install the retaining cable together with thimble and Nicopress sleeve to
the propeller mount. Don’t press the sleeve. Adjust the position of the
powerplant and the cable length according to section 1.12.4. Press the
Nicopress sleeve. Cut off the excess cable.
12. Check again the length of the retaining cable according to 1.12.4.
Adjustment is possible at the adjustment screw at the rear bulkhead.
Fasten the counter nut.
13. Reinstall the access cover to the rear engine bay floor.
Material:
Steel cable diameter 3.2 mm (1/8 in.) appr. 2.3 m (91 in.) long, type see
section 4.2.
2 thimbles 3mm DIN6899A
3 Nicopress sleeves 28-3-M
Tesaband 651 (selfadhesive textile tape)