Your cables look pretty tight. Took me a while to find a halfway decent photo, but this shows the "slop". Feels ok to me, but it is a little strange to see the cables flapping in the wind.
I'm in the middle of replacing my cables right now, partly due to excessive slop, but mostly because the balance cable was OLD, and there was obvious wear on all four cables. I found it interesting that the cables I removed measured out almost exactly to the original Piper spec, 173-11/16" for the upper control horn cable (attaches to bottom of stick) and 167-15/16" for the lower control horn cable (balance cable above your head). So, no apparent cable stretch. The slop in the system seems to have been caused by worn pulleys and a bent pulley cage. Some of the slop could have been removed if I bottomed out the turnbuckles, but I'll feel better with new cables. We will see if the new Dakota Cub ball bearing pulleys allow cable tension to be increased without inducing too much drag.


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