TomDetweiler
New member
Posted a thread yesterday about a '52 TO-30 with frozen "one touch" quad control lever.
Not here today so not sure what happened, either. Will try again to share info:
To save time, removed the control lever assembly (4 bolts in lift housing, comes right out).
It was totally rusted stuck. Worked at it several hours after drenching it overnight in Liquid
Wrench, tapping, heating, hammering, not one bit of movement. After more LW overnight
last night, finally gave up and took it to the local machine shop attached to our Riebe's Auto
Supply, where the guy used a tonnage Press to extract the frozen shaft from the housing!
$25 later I walked out with it in two pieces, finally. This saved me a lot of time, grief and
most likely busted knuckles and a lot of Blue Air around me.
When I removed the assembly, there was a hole in the top of the shaft housing, but no
evidence of lubrication unless you include rust in that category. I'm not sure how this shaft
assembly, with no bushings or bearings, is supposed to stay moving without lube but it did
work for me until now, and it's a 1952, only a few years younger than I am!
Will fill the shaft full of oil, put a big glob of grease on the dogleg/crank and put 'er back in.
Ought to work a whole lot better!
Not here today so not sure what happened, either. Will try again to share info:
To save time, removed the control lever assembly (4 bolts in lift housing, comes right out).
It was totally rusted stuck. Worked at it several hours after drenching it overnight in Liquid
Wrench, tapping, heating, hammering, not one bit of movement. After more LW overnight
last night, finally gave up and took it to the local machine shop attached to our Riebe's Auto
Supply, where the guy used a tonnage Press to extract the frozen shaft from the housing!
$25 later I walked out with it in two pieces, finally. This saved me a lot of time, grief and
most likely busted knuckles and a lot of Blue Air around me.
When I removed the assembly, there was a hole in the top of the shaft housing, but no
evidence of lubrication unless you include rust in that category. I'm not sure how this shaft
assembly, with no bushings or bearings, is supposed to stay moving without lube but it did
work for me until now, and it's a 1952, only a few years younger than I am!
Will fill the shaft full of oil, put a big glob of grease on the dogleg/crank and put 'er back in.
Ought to work a whole lot better!
