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jims
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Initially Posted - 06/22/2004 :  20:31:39  Show Profile
Launching this weekend... purchased heavy duty gudeons with nylon bushing. Problem is that I need to reverse pintles and remount pintle bracket locations. Large pintle at bottom will hit skeg on the '89. I used a collar on the large top pintle to keep from coming out and can't even get a cotter pin through the lower, smaller one. This approach has at least raised the tiller about an inch off the transom, which was down to the fiberglass when I got her.
Does this seem ok???
Thanks for any input.
Jims
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frog0911
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Response Posted - 06/22/2004 :  20:47:40  Show Profile
I never had a bottom pintle that had a hole for anything to go into. On my X-C25 the long pintle was on top with the hole for the pin and the short was on the bottom with no hole. As long as you have no up and down play you ahould not have any problem with the rudder staying in place. You should have about 1/4" of the lower pintle sticking out below the gudeon for security.
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deastburn
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Response Posted - 06/22/2004 :  23:06:47  Show Profile
Frog is right. The cotter pin fits into the top pintle (so you can remove it or replace it while underway in the unlikely event you needed to). If you are moving the pintle mounting brackets on the rudder itself, that will affect how the rudder stears the boat, since it will either increase or decrease the wetted surface of the rudder. I may have missed an earlier part of this thread, but it sounds as though the collar you have used on the upper gudgeon has raised the rudder enough so that the lower pintle is not deeply enough embedded in the lower gudgeon. It also sounds as though your printles are somehow reversed.

Are you sure you don't have the whole assembly upside down? Or did the PO do something really strange with your pintles?
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 06/23/2004 :  00:43:50  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
What gudgeons did you buy and from where. Your post is confusing to me, any pictures?
This is an 89
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