At 10:16 AM 6/26/2009, Sam wrote: >Yes, it is a wheel pilot. I bought a new belt but did not buy the whole >kit from Raymarine. The docs from Raymarine indicate the kit has the >belt and grease, I assumed for the rollers since we would not want >grease near this belt. Rollers are all spinning freely but the unit >seems a bit firm with the new belt on.
Let me think back... I had an ST4000+. I'm trying to think. It may have had grease on the rollers. If so it almost certainly was silicone grease. I'll check. I'm sure I have saved info on that wheel drive, but we're not at boat-home now. One thing. There is an adjustment for the belt. There's a black plastic cap on the motor side of the drive. I think it's near the motor. When you remove it, there's an allen adjusting screw with a locknut. The locknut is flat and has two holes in it for a special tool. I used a right angle long nose pliers. It's a trick to adjust so that it doesn't disengage randomly on one end, and it doesn't drag when disengaged on the other end. I wound up buying an old Simrad pilot, with the external belt. the motor checked out the same for no-load and stalled current. I connected directly to the motor, bypassing the drivers in the motor assembly. That was the end of the problems with the wheel drive. I now have an Raymarine S1 with the wheel drive II. They finally got it right. Rick 'n' Cathy S/V Valkyrie http://www.morelr.com/valkyrie _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
