The Cessna 120-140 Association Forum

Having just finished an annual on my 1946 C-140 (S/N 10199), I'm wondering what others have done to insure lubrication of the lower elevator cable pulley on the aft fuselage blukhead. There's no good way to see that pulley, short of an optical fiber scope, so I usually try to find a long tube and perform sort of "hail Mary" squirts of LPS-2 in the general vicinity of where it think it needs to go. Short of doing what Cessna did with the 150 (an inspection hole and plate yeilding access to the pully) what else is there to do? I'm a bit relucttant to make inspection holes in the airplane, which will undoubtedly require a lot of paperwork, but I've never been completely happy with what I do.

Kim Elmore
1946 Cessna 140 N72994

Kim, just crawl back there with the ole oil can -- "easy" solution . Seriously, you're probably doing it the way many of us do, and you can twist the snorkel for a pretty good aim as you've no doubt figured out. Mac

OK, Then! Y'know, if I really *did* somehow manage to crawl all the way back there I'd *never* get myself back out. That would make the CG waaaaay aft.

Kim