(2) The horizontal tail hinge bolts/nuts are rusted and the nuts are not even the right part. He suggests new bolts, nuts, and bushings.
At the outboard end of each elevator there is one bolt, nut, cotter pin, bearing (really a bronze bushing), and a bushing (actually a steel sleeve that is slightly longer than the bronze and a smooth fit in it). I just changed this bronze bushing on a '63 on the RH outboard elevator and the top of the rudder (neighbors airplane) and the bronze "bearing" is......
S1003-65A BEARING (List Price: $ 7.14) Stock Available Retail $ 6.07 (EA) and is easily replaced in a few minutes. The steel bushing that goes inside this bearing will never wear out and does not need replacing.
On this serial number aircraft the bolt is a AN3-7 drilled bolt and a AN310-3 castle nut and cotter pin and AN 960 washer. If the elevator has a bolt into a self locking nutplate it is an older elevator, they went to the castle nut and cotter pin beginning in the middle of the 1970 models. Otherwise all elevators from 1964 up are interchangeable.
For two bolts, two nuts and two bushings he sounds kinda pricey.
(3) Pulleys don't appear to have been lubricated at all during annual (just completed in Oct). He was surprised by this. Not a big deal except it suggests the possibility of a pencil-whipped annual in October.
While alot of people lube pulleys, they have seals on the bearings in them and if you look in the Cessna Service Manual, there is NOTHING telling you to lube pulleys. A waste of time. In fact lube on the cable groove of the pulley is a BAD thing, as (in some cases) it can cause the cable to slip in the groove rather than the pulley rotating, and this eats up the pulley.
Charles
