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One of the many jobs to be done was to refurbish my Steerer and make up a pair of rudder cables.

Here is the Steerer. Just needed a couple of bronze bushings made to take out the sloppiness.

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Next came the rudder cables. I had a length of surplus GPA rudder cable left over from a past restoration but I had to fit the unique ends to them. You can see them in the photo below. Thanks Brock J for the photo.

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I first machined the blanks and then make a simple press tool up to emulate the OEM style crimps. In the end a couple of crimps were a bit wonky but I am happy with them.

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Last but not least I made the end stops for the rudder cable where the cable terminates inside the Steerer. In the first photo (I think this photo belongs to Jeep Tom??) you can see that the cable is terminated with permanent crimped stops. I opted to use an adjustable crimp.

I will add more to this thread when I install the rudders.

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6 hours ago, OZM29C said:

I first machined the blanks and then make a simple press tool up to emulate the OEM style crimps. In the end a couple of crimps were a bit wonky but I am happy with them.

 

Great idea and execution! Did you press the crimps or use a hammer?

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13 hours ago, OZM29C said:

Last but not least I made the end stops for the rudder cable where the cable terminates inside the Steerer. In the first photo (I think this photo belongs to Jeep Tom??) you can see that the cable is terminated with permanent crimped stops. I opted to use an adjustable crimp.

I will add more to this thread when I install the rudders.

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Yes those cables are Jeep Tom's. I made them and the tubes for him from the original Studebaker drawings. 

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9 hours ago, Jesse Browning said:

Not having any information on the tiller ends of the cables (until now), we ran the cable through the tiller, resulting in one cable.

@Jesse Browning Would you like a drawing?

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15 hours ago, M29C3284 said:

John, do you have any drawings of the clamps? I need to make them for my weasel.

Regretably no, I don't have any drawings of this rudder cable conduit clamp set.

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