AeroCraft York 1960ish Transom, Stringers, Deck

[saginawbayboater]

Re: AeroCraft York 1960ish Transom, Stringers, Deck

I have the dash cut out of the four winns, so everything is hooked up for easy tracking later.

 

[saginawbayboater]

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I have a question here. This steering wheel hub needs to be pulled, so I can get the helm off out the back of the dash. Does anyone have experience pulling this type of steering wheel hub off? Do I use a 3 jaw puller? Any help is appreciated!

 

[saginawbayboater]

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update....... COLD!:cold::miserable: I had to warm up my beer to drink it. Hope to have some workable weather soon.

 

[Woodonglass]

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That appears to be a Rotary System with a keyed shaft. Put the nut back on, spray a lot of WD40 on it, us a block of wood and BF Hammer and commence to BEAT the HE Hockey Sticks out of it. Might need a little heat too! She'll pop loose eventually.:joyous:

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Thanks Wood "BFH" HAHAHAHA I Love it!!!!:laugh: If that don't work get a bigger "BFH". I didn't want to beat it up too much and risk damaging the helm, so I found a three jaw puller. The puller jaws were too large to fit behind the hub and in front of the plastic cover. I had the piece of angle laying around from a shelving leg, and cut a slot out.


I used a balancer puller try and pull the hub off.


I should have tried that to start with as i worked good.

 

[zool]

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Good deal saginaw....they can be a real pain....but the puller makes short work of it

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Good deal saginaw....they can be a real pain....but the puller makes short work of it

Thanks Zool!!! Ya usually steering wheels have threaded holes for a puller. Oh well!!!

 

[saginawbayboater]

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The main deal here is to get this plastic cover off to expose the bolts, so I can get helm disconnected from the dash. Now that the wheel hub is off I have to figure out how the plastic cover comes off without breaking it. The cover has two little pegs it attaches to, and I did put a little crack in it, but I think it's reusable.


Note to self!!!! Put a piece of tape on the hole to keep the bees out!!!!!:doh: I was out on the water enjoyin the day mindin my own bidness and the swarm of yellow jackets flyes up my shorts!! OOOoooopsey!!!

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Ok makin some progress here!! The outer bolts are to connect the helm to the dash!! The inner bolts connect the dash to the helm.




I think we got it!!!:thumb:

 

[saginawbayboater]

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This is the concealed control box and cables I removed from the four winns a few weeks ago. I hope to reuse all these parts on the Aerocraft!!

 

[sphelps]

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Bee's up the ol shorts would not be a good thing !
Everything looks to be in good shape and reusable ..

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Getting closer to firing this motor. Hooked up the battery. Everything works so far!!

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Ok it fired and so far so good!!! :thumb:

 

[jbcurt00]

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Nice work, SBB. You do know someone stole your lower unit though, right?

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Nice work, SBB. You do know someone stole your lower unit though, right?

Ya I guess I will need that!!!!:laugh:

 

[Decker83]

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She fired right up for you.. That was a sweet sound...:whoo:

 

[saginawbayboater]

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She fired right up for you.. That was a sweet sound...:whoo:

Thanks Decker! I am excited about it. Now I can sort out the lower unit!!

 

[GT1000000]

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That is a sweet sound and smell of success! Congratulations on the start up...arty:

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Today the sun is shining, and I don't have to move snow, so it's a great Saturday morning!!! I have made a key acquisition. I picked up a used, but complete lower unit for the Evinrude. I hope to disassemble this gear case, and utilize the parts along with the basket case that I have to build a usable unit. We will see how that goes!

Hope everyone has a good weekend! :smow:

 

[saginawbayboater]

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It's been a heck of a winter and I am happy to be warming up! A little update here. I have the gear case entirely disassembled and I have everything, I think I need, to put it back together. I also have been cutting up the rotted out 4winns. I will post up some pics soon.

Happy spring peeps!!!:cheerful::tan: