S.O.452 -2001 New rudder bearings

[lyonesse]

S.O.452-Yard No. 00536.

Does anyone please have any advise/knowledge on replacing rudder bearings on the above.
How many bearings are there,
What extra ground clearance is required when dropping the rudder,
Are the bearings readily available from Jeanneau or who ?

Best regards,
Lyonesse

[skip]

I am looking for rudder bearings upper and lower for 1996 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 45.2, hull #50979. Where may these items be ordered? Thanks for your help
Best wishes,
Skip

[bsafreed]

I dropped my SO42.1 Rudder Last Year while in the water. There are two bearings, top and bottom. I'd recommend replacement out of the water as the bottom bearing (i did not replace either one) housing was molded to the hull. My objective was the rudder and not the bearings. Search on Rudder to find my posts as I noted the process of rudder removal.

Another member was kind to give me the contact information below regarding Jeanneau parts.

Gilles Rigaux
[phone]
[e-mail]

If he cannot help then let me know as I recall contacting a company in Austria on the rudder bearing parts which they could supply for my 17 yo SO. I'll need to search for the contact info but I'm sure Mr. Rigaux can find your parts.

Please post your process of removal and replacement as I'm inclinded to replace mine in the next hualout.

Best regards, Brian

[bsafreed]

Oh, if you remove the rudder on the hard you will need at least 2 ft extra to accommodate the lenght of the rudder post.

[Peter123]

We did ours on our 3 yr old 36i yesterday.
These were 2 polythene ( i think) inserts sitting inside rubber mountings. We knocked them out with a mallet and wooden punch, having lubricated with soapy water.
You can calculate the drop needed by measuring the height of the rudder stock between where it comes out of the hull and where you can see it through the emergency tiller access hole. Take this height and subtract from it the height of the lower end of the rudder above ground level when the boat is in a cradle and that how deep you will need to dig a hole on the ground or lift the boat up by. I think we needed about 20 inches of lift above the cradle.
Top tip: It was really difficult to line up the stock with the new bearings to get it in again, we eventually used the main halyard down into the stern tube to lift the rudder up.
Good luck.