[Public-List] Tiller Head - I'm stuck!

[Glennb]

Jeff,

I ve always had good success putting some heat on frozen bolts with a small torch.  once red hot, squirt some cutting oil, or penetrating oil on the bolt. The heat will swell the material,   the oil will quench the bolt- rapidly shrink it- causing the threads to loosen up.  also the heat will draw the oil into the threads  and allow you to back it out of the shaft easier.

(cut the nasty old deck away from around the shaft son you can get your hands into the work area). I replaced my cockpit floor last summer, makes life a lot easier when you cab get at the shaft, etc!

Cheers,
Glenn P.
dolce 318     
Sent from my iPad

On Mar 31, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Jeffrey <alberg30nh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm about to embark on a cockpit floor re-core, but I've hit a roadblock
> getting the tiller head off.
> 
> In front of the tiller head is a big (5/8 If I remember) bolt head.  This
> bolt..no way is that sucker moving.  So far a couple of days dribbling in
> some PB Blaster and still nothing. The bolt looks like steel.
> 
> What exactly is this bolt? Does the bolt go through the rudder shaft? I can
> just almost barely see the back side, and it looks like there *may* be a
> hole. Is this common to all boats?
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Jeff Fongemie
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