Tiller arm bolt problem.
I need to replace the steering cable on my 96 Comp and decided to do a chores list while I have the gas tank out. New blower hoses, install a second bilge pump near the transom etc. I also want to service/re-pack my rudder.
Mine is the model without the grease zerks.
Cotter pin on top. key way from shaft to tiller arm and a bolt running horizontally through the back of the tiller arm and I assume through a notch in the rudder shaft.
I have read a bunch of posts and they all say to remove the bolt and the shaft will drop down. But they don't say how to remove it.
Its not really a bolt but more like a stud with some kind of small compression head that appears to have been drawn into the tiller arm under some considerable tension.
There is just a flat round head protruding slightly from the tiller arm.
I have tried penetrating fluid and heat and hammering away at the bolt end with the nut on to protect the threads.
I have destroyed the nut and it has not budged.
Am I doing something wrong?
I just want to service it; not demolish it.
Thanks.
John
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