Hi!! Thank you for the quick and precise answer! It is very appreciated!
Last question: what king of grease do you us in the grease cup? White grease? Have a good day! Camille Le mer. 24 avr. 2019 à 15:36, Dreuge via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> a écrit : > Camille, > > I originally had steering which was stiff and somewhat resistant to > turning. My problem turned out to be old dry crusted grease in the rudder > tube. After dropping the rudder, cleaning out the old, and replacing the > rudder lubed with SuperLube, resulted in nice smooth steering. I grease it > via a cup about once a year. All remains nice and well. > > It sounds easy, but it was a challenge to remove the radial. The bolts > holding the radial together in my case were galled/corroded in place. > > Take a look at by blog post: > http://svjohannarose.blogspot.com/2014/12/rudder-and-steering.html > > > As for a grease cup, you likely do have one (or had one). it should be on > the aft starboard side of the rudder rube. It is easy to access with the > steering radial removed. Regular access requires an arm contortion trick: > open the deck access plate just aft of the rudder post, stick you arm down > and twist it under the radial drive disk, then reach towards the rudder > post. It should be there. > > > > - > Paul E. > 1981 C&C Landfall 38 > S/V Johanna Rose > Fort Walton Beach, FL > > http://svjohannarose.blogspot.com/ > > > On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:10 AM, Camille Cloutier via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We just signed in the CnC-List mailing list and we would have a question > concerning our C&C boat Landfall 38. We live in Qu?bec and we are french > speaking so I'll try to express myself as good as I can :) > > We find that the streering wheel is harder to turn then other C&C we have > tried. We have replace all the wires so we are sure that the problem > doesn't come from the pedestal. In the instruction manual, they talk about > a > grease cup which we don't have. We don't have teflon washer around the > rudder shaft in the water either. > > Does anyone have informations about how the whole rudder system is put > together so we can recondition it to have a smooth and easy steering wheel > ? > > Thank you very much > > Camille > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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