continuing this discussion ... So OK if we acknowledge a .005 working figure ...
does that actually mean .005 between pin and rudder hardware or just in the hole and pin size?

working on rudder this week and looked at pins from 1984 late.

1. Pins in rudder hardware barely have enough slop for two strips of cheap copy paper say each sheet is .004 but only using narrow strip ... so say free space is about .008



I agree that the problem is not in the rudder hardware or pins.

2. the pins show a tiny amount of groove and using copy paper as an measuring tool ... I'm saying the groove is .002




3. the bottom pin is more worn that the top pin but not a lot.
[can tell the difference because the bottom of the bottom pin is corroded]




4. the real problem must be the gudgeons. where I am seeing over 1/8 in. of slop at the bottom one.

5. I am not going to do anything to "correct" this other than putting the bottom pin in the top gudgeon when i put the rudder back on Sunday.

Vic,

Ted Kaperonis, (specialK) tkaper6862@aol.com, had a very good looking set of pintles and gudgeons that he was selling from Hoodlum. They were from a freshwater boat that spent a lot of time on a trailer, I saw them about a year ago and I remember tthey looked in "like new" condition.

Lumpy

Ups! destroyed by mooring line tangled around the rudder during heavy weather.