Steve,

 

I've been following this discussion and I'm not sure where your resistance is coming from.  If it's coming from the cables in the Nylaflow tubing, I can tell you what I did to reduce the resistance.  On my ES, I must have accumulated some dust (what a surprise) during construction.  The cables come pre-lubed so they attract dust.  I had quite a lot of resistance in my cables when construction was complete and it got worse during the first 30 hours.  It was so bad, I was tempted to cut the Nicopress sleeves off to remove the cables to lube them.

 

I found a product called Cable Life.  It's used to lubricate cables on snowmobiles and other vehicles.  I talked to the company and they quoted some really low temperature that the lubricant was rated for, so I didn't worry about it thickening up at high altitudes.

 

They sell a little gizmo that clamps to the cable housing end that forces the lubricant down the cable.  After creating a nice puddle of lubricant in my foot well, I tried another method.  I drilled, very carefully, a hole the size of the nozzle tube (like a WD40 red nozzle) in the Nylaflow about in the middle, for me that was in the baggage compartment.  I inserted the nozzle and gave it a squirt.  In about 2 seconds I had lubricant flowing out both ends of the Nylaflow tubing, success!

 

I would say that I had about 1/10th the resistance in my rudder pedal lines.  I now do the Cable Life treatment at each condition inspection.

 

 

Mike Easley

Colorado Springs

Super ES