2017 F15A Starting over

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I saw this on the pintle spring. A nice this to see after years of dirt over the top!

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Moving on I have started the steering box test and evaluation. I drained out the nice jam thickened oil. this was fairly easy to do but I was concerned that the worm inside might have damage from water. Nope, it looks quite ok.

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The shaft had a mud wasp inside and it took me a good hour to remove all of the mud and gunk from inside the shaft using a piece or 1/8" steel rod. Now I can thread the horn wire through the centre in the future.

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The last picture Steering socket: What have people used to replace the gungy old perished rubber seal? Do you just cut a piece of rubber to size?

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Cheers,

Ian