http://www.liamswebsite.co.uk/off-with-the-tiller/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.liamswebsite.co.uk/off-with-the-tiller/#comment-8 Liam Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:04:02 +0000 http://www.liamswebsite.co.uk/?p=28#comment-8 it wasn't easy, I assure you! In fact, it was a complete pain in the arse. The guy who you can see in the picture, is a friend of ours who, thankfully is an engineer and had all of the equipment. I have no idea what the tool was called which he used to remove the tiller but that took most of the time, and that was with smacking the bottom of the tiller, which fits onto the stock with the lump hammer shown in the pic. Eventually that came off and then it was a complete pain trying to get the old bearing off and the new bearing on. I had to end up getting into the canal, as our rudder doesn't have a hole in the tope so I had to pass a rope underneath it and then once we'd eventually finished that part, I had to get back into the water again, to make sure the stock had fallen back into the cup on the skeg! Not a nice job, at all! it wasn’t easy, I assure you! In fact, it was a complete pain in the arse. The guy who you can see in the picture, is a friend of ours who, thankfully is an engineer and had all of the equipment. I have no idea what the tool was called which he used to remove the tiller but that took most of the time, and that was with smacking the bottom of the tiller, which fits onto the stock with the lump hammer shown in the pic. Eventually that came off and then it was a complete pain trying to get the old bearing off and the new bearing on. I had to end up getting into the canal, as our rudder doesn’t have a hole in the tope so I had to pass a rope underneath it and then once we’d eventually finished that part, I had to get back into the water again, to make sure the stock had fallen back into the cup on the skeg! Not a nice job, at all!

]]> http://www.liamswebsite.co.uk/off-with-the-tiller/#comment-7 kevin Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:52:33 +0000 http://www.liamswebsite.co.uk/?p=28#comment-7 You make it sound easy! How did you get the tiller off? I spent half an hour bashing and levering but mine refuses to budge. You make it sound easy! How did you get the tiller off? I spent half an hour bashing and levering but mine refuses to budge.

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