I had one grease cup screwed into the fibreglass rudder tube of my 26. Removed it and has a flexible "grease gun hose" made up with a male screw fitting on one end (to screw into the rudder tube) and a zerk fitting on the other end (to fit a grease gun). Routed the free end to the inside corner of the starboard cockpit locker and secured with a pad eye. Now just a matter of giving it a few pumps with the grease gun when I remember, without having to climb into the bowels of the boat. sam :-)
Bill, I have the same on my '73 C&C 30. They tapped into the GRF with a cap fitting that holds grease for the rudder. I wasn't aware of it until my rudder started groaning during turns. My son crawled below and found a badly crudded up cap which we cleaned up and filled with grease. Tightening by turning a little at a time adds new grease. Rudder stopped groaning after that and works much smoother as one would expect. Ron Wild Cheri On Monday, December 23, 2013 5:38 PM, dwight <[email protected]> wrote: My 35 MKII has two of those holes and
each had a grease cup…just replaced the grease cups a few years ago and
refilled them last season…the grease goes away when I tighten the cups and the
only place I see for it to go is around the rudder post…nothing much has
changed with the steering but the old grease cups were dry and corroded and one
was very hard to remove, given that I am a rather chubby snake
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Behalf Of Bill Coleman Sent: December 23, 2013 5:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 39 rudder port problem The
only Hole in the rudder shaft housing I can think of is the grease fitting that
in the forward left quadrant close to the bottom, which, if you were standing
in the cockpit looking forward, would be about 10:00 . I have no idea why
they put a fitting that needed to be attended to in a place where only a snake
could reach it. I have never squeezed any grease onto the shaft because I
can’t see what I am doing and I don’t want a leak either. I would guess they
drilled a hole in the fiberglass and tapped it, or just screwed the grease
fitting in sans threads, don’t know.
But,
I wouldn’t mess with it while it was in the water.
I
measured my shaft diameter at that ‘bearing’ point, and it was polished and
only a half a thousandth shy and still snug, so, I figured good enough.
Bill
Coleman
C&C
39
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Sent: December-21-13 14:53 To: C and C List Subject: Stus-List C&C 39 rudder port problem I
am new to the mailing list and I am not sure of all the protocalls. I
have a '71 C&C 39 (Windquest) and the rudder port is leaking and there is a
bit of play where the rudder post enters the hull. Are there drawings
available of the rudder port? Has anyone had one apart. The boat is
unique among '39s in that it has a partial skeg and high aspect ratio rudder
rather than the typical shark fin. Any help would be much appreciated.
Jim
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