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Topic: PA14 Rudder Mount fix  (Read 305 times)

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GoJay

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My PA14's rudder felt very light when I change direction and has no impact on direction. So I used 360 drive as thrust vectoring for navigation and inspected it when I back home.
Alas, the under hull rudder mount shaft is shear off from the bracket. Dang!
It took some time to figure out name and the model number of this "thingy" but bigger problem is that there is NO stock anywhere and due to Hobie's ownership change, no dealership is taking new orders. DangDang!
I don't have a welder and skill, so I did what I can. CNC machining. Only challenge is the material is Stainless Steel 316, notoriously difficult to machine and I had no experience with.
And here comes Gemini to rescue. I chatted with "him/her/it" and came up with cutting hex shape on shaft and bracket to take torsion force and add through screw to keep them together with Epoxy. It guided me feed and speed that works for cutting them.
It's very tight fit. With some epoxy, I think it will last long enough until this part crisis ends.


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Not sure how that part fits in to the bigger picture, but I don't think epoxy is likely to hold up. Since it's already drilled out, it looks like you could thread the smaller hole, and inert a bolt from below. Or, maybe even just drill the whole thing out and insert a bolt of the correct diameter, which would probably be as strong as the original, if not stronger...
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GoJay

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That's exactly what I did. Epoxy alone can't hold those two piece together but with M4 screw from bracket bottom to the shaft with Epoxy on hex and screw. I considered the bolt method as well. The problem is that now I need to add screw hole on top and side hole for sister rod that connect to the rudder drum. So I decided to reuse original broken parts.