This page details some work we did to a friends C-180 skywagon. His trim was very hard to move and we ended up removing the tail and lots of other things

Best

Brian

Here we have a shot of the rear before removal with the tail plastic off.

Pesky hardware......

Removing more hardware

wire has been carefully wrapped and protected...

I appreciate the compliment on the length... but yes.. we needed all of those to reach

This is during the operation

Remove bracket

More Hardware

And Going.....

And Going...

And GONE!!!

The Stinger is next

We are sOOOO missing something.... although whatever it is does not quite strike me yet.....

One half of the elevaor had a crused rib that was really hard to see and we pulled the actual tail off and had it rebuilt and we stuck it back on and it almost fixed the problem, the jackscrews felt sharp, that is actually the problem, they should not be sharp. The tail stinger was not hard.... we rebuilt it.

Rinse.... Repeat in the opposite order...

Best

Brian