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Hi guys, I noticed a few flights ago that I had a left wing heavy situation. I found several threads where the rigging procedure is well explained so today I went to the airport and elected to verify if the rudder had the 1 degree deviation to the right when the nose wheel is up and the rudder pedals clamped. So I clamped, I raised the nose wheel by lowering the tail tie down hook and took a look. Results: The nose wheel was straight OK. The rudder was almost straith with the vertical fin but was about 1 or 2 degrees to the right in reference to the tail cone. The issue I have was is: The tail cone is not aligned straight with the vertical fin. I have a 2 - 3 degrees bend or something on the pilot side. (This would explain the left heavy wing). I went to look at another Mooney on the field and it seemed to have a similar misalignment but about only half of what I have. My question is: Is the tail cone supposed to be exactly aligned with the vertical fin? The airplane had SB M20-313A done in the spring during annual and is it possible the mechanic who did this messed this up? This seem to be about when I started to notice the heavy wing situtation. Upon doing this SB, wouldn't we want to check if this affects the rigging? Yves C-FQKM