Where Do These Spacers Go?

[Jim Herd]

I am repairing my Patrol left wing and left leg. The rear wheel left chain broke, causing a runway departure on landing. The project is going well, even if very slow. I have the two spacers in the photo and it is so long since I disassembled that I can't remember where they go. After an exhaustive search of the plane, I still can't figure it out. They are steel and partly painted grey. All other parts are carefully marked, but not these little devils. Does anyone have a better memory than mine?

Jim Herd
KMEV near Lake Tahoe

[geraldmorrissey]

Somebody threw them into the pile just to drive you crazy. I went through the Patrol dwgs and the only loose bushing in rhe wing that I can find are in the aileron drive system, but yours are way too long. They look kinda like pulley standoff bushings.

[Dpearson]

On my 4 place I had to bush down the aileron pulley at the strut attach bracket. Not sure if that is applicable to the patrol though. image.jpg

[Jim Herd]

Thanks for those responses, chaps. The bushings "appeared" after some teardown to fix a damaged wing. So they were definitely on the plane, somewhere. Yes, I too, thought they looked like pulley stand-offs, but I can't find any bolts we disassembled that are long enough to fit that application. And I didn't see them on any drawing - I looked carefully 3 times. We are about to buck rivets on the new skins. I was hoping the location of the 2 spacers would become self-evident with reassembly. I still live in hopes that will happen. We will methodically follow the entire control surface mechanism on reassembly, but it is "unsettling" to have parts left over!

Does anyone else recall these parts during assembly?