Hi Joe,
I've replaced the rudder bushings a couple of times on my boat and gotten them from S2. There are gudgeon bushings that look like white tubes that the pintles drop in to & they are some sort of plastic or composite like derlin. There are also small, plastic, clip type bushings that go inside the receiving holes keeping metal-to-metal contact from happening between pintle & gudgeon. I'm not at my boat right now so I can't do much better describing this. Maybe someone else can.
The last time I bought them I bought a few sets directly from S2. I'm down to my last, unused set of spares. Back then I called their parts dept. @ 616-394-7492 & talked with their "sailboat guy," Scott Bytwerk. This was in the '90s, though, so I don't know if the info or personnel is current.
The gudgeon bushings were labelled "8.1 Gudgeon Bushings" and the others simply "Small, Clip Type Bushings (27)." I bought 2 sets that time and it cost me a little over $100. I think I had to cut the last set of gudgeon bushings to size.
HTH,
Frank
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On Jun 26, 2015, at 3:25 PM,
fultonjoe@... [s227classassociation] wrote:
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Hi,
I am very close to buying a S2 27. ?On the test sail I also found the rudder klunk issue. ?I have read through the various posts in the group, but I could not find any information on size of bearings/bushings needed. ?I believe one post mentioned Thompson bearings and I think it showed the inside diameter to be 5/8", but I could not find what the outside diameter needs to be, Thompson had a few different OD sizes to choose from. ?I also could not find the length of bearing/bushing needed and didn't think to measure for them on the test sail.
Does anyone know the ID/OD's of these items and the length needed? ?Please post them if you do.
Thanks!
Joe
