Has anyone figured out a way to silence the boom vang? Mine has developed a bad squeak - I can minimize it by tightening the main sheet and the toping lift but some still remains. The noise is caused by the spring inside the vang.
Boom vang
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Are you sure it is the spring in the vang.We had a similar noise in our boom area (B 321 classic mast) Tracked it down to the goose neck fitting + vang attachment points on boom and mast base.
At goose neck we used a few drops of McLube oil (couple of applications) and other joints used McLube sail kote.As a side note also used sail kote on the main sail slugs main raises and douses much easier
At goose neck we used a few drops of McLube oil (couple of applications) and other joints used McLube sail kote.As a side note also used sail kote on the main sail slugs main raises and douses much easier
There is no doubt that the source is the spring inside the vang. I have the same situation on my 323. When I had the vang off the boat this spring, I tried to correct the problem by spraying McLube on the fully extended inner cylinder hoping that some of it would find its way ,eventually, to the spring . it helped a little but certainly did not cure the squeak. I wonder if there was some sort of spacer or sleeve in there when it was new, and that it finally wore out.
So I finally got around to taking the boom vang apart. I found the inside of the aluminum tube corroded from the interaction of aluminum and steel spring. Also found a few aluminum chunks that had logged between the seal and tube. Cleaned everything out applied lithium grease and reassembled.
No noise!
No noise!
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