[C38] Rudder Drop Woes

[Joseph Launie]

Try Kroil penetrating oil. Joe

On 4/3/2011 10:26 PM, Steve Smolinske wrote:
> 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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> 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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