In my quest to remove the rudder I have hit a bit of a snag. I removed a nut from the lower part of the rudder post and removed the quadrant from the upper part. At this point, it would have been nice to use a couple of wrenches and remove the locking nuts at the top of this stuffing box:
However, I have no idea what type of wrenches and what size wrenches would have pursuaded such frozen pieces to separate. Any ideas?
So I removed the screws holding the rudder post stuffing box down and just slid it right off the top of the rudder post. I had hoped that now--with a little pursuasion of the hammer type--that the rudder post would just lift up and out of the rudder. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
I don't really know how this is all put together, but I believe that the top of the rudder is a metal fitting and is all one piece with the rudder reinforcing webbing. I would imagine that the rudderpost is square where it enters and locks into the rudder.
I intend to drop the shaft so that I have a little more room to swing a bigger hammer at the bottom of the rudder post to pursuade it to leave.
Any suggestions?
However, I have no idea what type of wrenches and what size wrenches would have pursuaded such frozen pieces to separate. Any ideas?
So I removed the screws holding the rudder post stuffing box down and just slid it right off the top of the rudder post. I had hoped that now--with a little pursuasion of the hammer type--that the rudder post would just lift up and out of the rudder. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
I don't really know how this is all put together, but I believe that the top of the rudder is a metal fitting and is all one piece with the rudder reinforcing webbing. I would imagine that the rudderpost is square where it enters and locks into the rudder.
I intend to drop the shaft so that I have a little more room to swing a bigger hammer at the bottom of the rudder post to pursuade it to leave.
Any suggestions?