My new to me (less than a year) 81 Eagle II rolls slightly right inflight. Not badly, but just requires a little left stick to counter. Again, very slight. Rudder is in trim, so it's definitely a roll. As there aren't aileron trim tabs, I thought I could turn in the right wind pushrod a turn or 2, pulling the right aileron down, in effect causing the airplane to stop the right roll. Would this work? Or by doing so, would this just cause the ailerons to balance out inflight and have no net effect, other than the stick position maybe changing a little. I've thought this through a few times and still haven't figured out whether it will work. 1/2 of me thinks it'll work by having more right down aileron. The other 1/2 of me thinks it won't because there's nothing to hold that aileron down except the stick, and airflow with no stick force will just push it back to the most faired position between the two.
Make sense?
Make sense?