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Since these are drilled, are they supposed to be safety wired together?

Yes. If wired they won't come out for sure.

Wiring them would be a good idea. They have the holes. Adding the safety wire certainly won't hurt anything. Check and see if someone in your club has a set of safety wire pliers. Most airplane mechanics have a set you could probably borrow for the 1 minute it takes to put safety wire in. I still have 2 sets of them in my toolbox from my work on airplanes.

They just need to be stopped from winding out, so all you need is a wire between them to stop this. Maintaining tension with aircraft type twitching is overkill for this application.

Allan from down under.

It's good to have things wired in, especially things which could get into the crankcase and wreck you magneto or starter ring.
Norm

Check your clearances with the bolt heads & clutch fingers. This area is real tight.

I believe 1912 is the last year they did that.

Original Smith wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:56 pm

I believe 1912 is the last year they did that.

I had a 13 customer that had it also. Thats why I mention a caution about clearance checking.