I'm very pleased with the work done - to time to the quote provided and I now have a perfect rattle free tiller arm. I popped on the tiller arm, the lovely hinged one Rachel brought me for my birthday and fired the engine up and ran the boat in gear at a few different speeds (Sorry Mandy if you are reading this as it would have buffeted you a little) and all was well. One othr benefit was at certain 'engine charging' revs the tiller would hit a resonance that rolled through the boat - no more.
The real test will be this weekend when we go out on a mini cruise to celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary (Feb 14th) No sure where we will be going yet. I quite fancy Great Heywood but it has given really poor weather for Sunday so we may just go until we fancy stopping - as it should be.
The grease nipple thread was different so Stuart is sending me one over as I am happy to fit it myself.I am happy to recommend Stuart. His email address is
stuart.f@live.com
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Congratulations on your anniversary, Nev. It's our 30th on Valentines Day and we will be in Prague - romantic old sod?
I have the same rudder set up as you and after I changed my top bearing a fitted a rubber disk on the rudder shaft above the bearing to deflect the worst of the rain and snow. I made the disk from a piece of tractor tyre iner tube.
As like you I had already refitted the swan neck, so what I did was cut two rubber disks id to suit shaft od a bit bigger than the bearing. I then cut them between the iner and outer so I could slip them round the shaft and then laminated them together with Evo-stick with the cut 180 deg apart.
Does that make sense?
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