Cam plate and clevis
Gidday Lynn and Ron (and anyone else),
Just wondering if I can get some more advice about how best to attack this problem I have.
No matter what I do I can’t seem to squeeze into the right rear crew area enough to get anywhere near the clevis holding screw on the left side.
I figure I have two options to deal with the problem:
1. I undo the castellated nut on the cam securing bolt and then remove the full inspection plate from underneath the hull. I’ve had ‘a play’ with this option already but unfortunately I am not dealing with simple bolt holes tapped into the hull. Some bots are secured by nuts on the inside of the hull, again in a very tight area to access.
I figure if I can remove the plate (correct me if I am wrong) this plate and the plate with the cam securing shaft will fall away leaving the cam still inside the hull and still secured to the steering column by the connecting rods and clevises.
Then, I find a suitable washer or some other spacer and fit it to the cam shaft and simply replace the assembly.
That should give the cam a couple of mm of lift which should mean the clevis will clear the metal plate it is currently striking.
Alternatively, I just remove the plate with the cam securing shaft and follow the same procedure above. I haven’t really looked hard at this option and from what I recall I will have to rotate the cam until I can access each of the four nuts so as to remove the four securing bolts.
Am I on the right track here?
2. I get a small suitably bladed grinder or something similar and after removing the driver’s seat I access the very small hole in the bulkhead and see if I can grind 1-2 mm off the plate on the hull just under where the left side clevis will slide.
I figure this will be a mission in itself and will be reliant on getting a suitable grinder or some other appropriate tool. It really needs to be about the size of a file but be able to take off the required couple of mm in that plate in a very confined space.
Any other thoughts on how I attack this?
Cheers
Darryl
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