It's the core
Hello,
When you run the splice home, the standing part of the core slides along next to the end of the core; left unchecked, this action will tend to pull the end part of the core down into the rope. This produces the slack in the cover in the eye that you are talking about. It also means that you will be trying to bury more material than you meant to, as there's more length of core end getting buried. Clear?
That's one big reason why you keep both sides of the eye in tension, to keep that core end from being dragged in. And why, if that fails, you stop as soon as you see the eye starting to bunch, milk the slack out, working away from the crossover, and pull hard to get the core back where it belongs.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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