Baggage area floor - Inspection Holes?

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The 120 I am restoring has no inspection holes in the left and right baggage area floor covers. This makes it nigh onto impossible to inspect/lubricate/replace the six control cable pulleys under there. Dont know if these floor panels are the original parts, or they have been replaced somewhere along the line. A friend’s 140 has large inspection ports on both sides. I am thinking about adding those to my project. Does anyone have any information on this topic? The parts and service manuals do not show these parts in sufficient detail.

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They have a 3 inch x 12.5 inch slot in front if the battery box. I checked two and the are identical. There are two 6 inch round holes under the seats, too. The serial numbers are early and late in production.

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Thanks for looking. If there are no holes in the baggage compartment floor panels then I guess Cessna expected future mechanics to have rubber arms and exray vision! Apparently in my friend’s 140 the holes were added. Or maybe the 140 had the holes from the factory and the 120 didn’t. Or maybe the design changed sometime in the production run. Anybody have any more information? I dont really want to add those holes and covers unless they were part of the original design.

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Took some doing to make the image low enough pixels to be a able to post it. Which I did above. There is also some structure under the baggage floor. I have some 140’s too, and none of them have anything but the 3” slot in the baggage floor.

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http://www.taildraggeraviation.com/images/53cfuse8.jpg

Take a look at the above image from Ken and Lorraine Morris' collection. You can see that an inspection hole has been added

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Thanks everyone for the information. Today I was able to find a volunteer that actually has rubber arms and exray vision and we were able to replace the rudder cable pulley with the new cable in it, and even was able to inspect and lubricate the five other pulleys under the floor. So, my baggage floor will be maintained in its native configuration!

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The long slot panel was original. Anything else is a modification.

It can be done, and yes I've done it. (replace those pulleys through the slot panel) But I was younger then.........

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The long slot panel was original. Anything else is a modification.

It can be done, and yes I've done it. (replace those pulleys through the slot panel) But I was younger then.........

Younger is the operative word here, I almost paid my 6 year old granddaughter several years ago to do this job since I also found it difficult to accomplish. Not impossible, but difficult.