[C38] Rudder Drop Woes
david at dlrfilms.com
david at dlrfilms.com
Mon Apr 4 07:57:59 EDT 2011
Two smaller bolts?
> David,
>
> Just dropped mine and had a similiar problem with one of the four bolts
> clamping the unit to the post. We ended up using socket extensions to get
> the wrench so that a second person could put a pipe on it from within the
> quarter berth. I layed in place and held the socket on the head of the
> bolt and supported the extensions so that the other crew member could reef
> on the damn thing. It took a whole lot of grunting and groaning.
>
> Aluminium heats and expands faster than the stainless bolt, you might try
> heating and then applying more WD40 or PB Blaster and waiting a few hours.
> tap the head of the bolt after heating and spraying the WD to allow the
> WD40 to penetrate into the threads Im assuming you also removed the two
> smaller bolts at the outer edge of the wheel in addition to the four large
> ones in the center.
>
> When you get it out let me know what your post looks like, I thought they
> were solid posts, I was surprised to find that ours looked to be about
> Schedule 40 pipe.
>
> Steve
> #312 Peregrine
> Seattle
>
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> Subject: [C38] Rudder Drop Woes
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>
>
> Had a friend out today to help drop the rudder, and it would have happened
> except we couldn't get the under the deck tiller from the old wheel off
> the damn rudder post!
>
> Amazingly, the four bolts camping the thing together around the post
> backed out with out too much trouble, but the big drift pin wouldn't
> budge.
>
> We tried heat, PB blaster, brute force, and cunning mechanical advantage
> and only the slightest seem opened up between the shaft and the tiller.
>
> I am *discouraged*.
>
> Any helpful thoughts before I cut the damn thing off with an angle
> grinder?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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