First of all let me say "your-the-man!" to whoever engineered this forum. It is the best I've ever seen.
Now, I have an 83 hobie 16 that I purchased last year. The rudders worked so-so last summer without doing much to them. BUt this spring I took them mostly apart and put in rudder stiffeners and also greased the cams. Now the rudders pop up way too easily. I haven't had the boat in the water but I don't think they are going to stay down. I have tried to adjust the tension with the "Delrin screw" but these are locked up tight. I spayed some WD40 on them but they still won't move. What do I do now?
The way to do it is by adjusting those screws... if you have the white screws remove them and replace them with the new black ones. The heads on the white ones will strip when trying to screw them up. Its a good idea to clean out the threads inside the casting, with a tap or something.
-Todd
Hello,
You need to get those threads good and cleaned up, as well as replacing the delrin screw with a new one.
Here's a picture from the article:
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And here is the link:
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This is what I alwas do when I have the type of trouble you described, and it works great!
Good luck,
Tim J.
Thanks for the replies, both of you. The article is just what I needed. I was hoping that I could get the screws out but I can see that I'll have to drill them out. It seemed hopeless to begin with but I thought there might be a trick to it.
i 'adjusted' my spring by cutting and making the spring shorter because it was too tight and my adjuster screw was also siezed. in your case you could add a spacer or a piece of spring, i learned this trick racing motorcycles.
You might try this. I've heard of it working but I've never had the need to try it personally.
Take a large headed screwdriver. The biggest you can get in there. Heat it up with a torch until it is glowing hot. Stick it deep into the delrin screw and wait a second then try to turn it out of there.
You might as well try it. It can't do any harm at this point.
Mike Hill
H20 #791
On my 14 I drilled the screws to a point and then I melted/burned the rest out with my torch. Don't breath the fumes!