This may be stating the obvious, but in that picture the keel does look like it's almost down to the point of resting on the stopper pin...where it would stop and go no further. Assuming you have the stopper pin out....I'd also look inside the trunk in that area to see if something has accumulated inside the aft end of the trunk and is keeping the board up. If you remove the pivot pin....the CB should drop out the bottom. Once it's completely out...you can get aggressive in cleaning out the trunk and cleaning up the board. A clean board and trunk allows the CB to work very easily...no friction anywhere. That should be the goal. On 1/8/06 12:48 PM, "Steve Shenkel" <slsail@cox.net> wrote:
To get where it was, I beat on it a little from the top with a quarter inch steel rod and that moved it down about 2 inches. The rest of the way was done by grabbing on to the 2" portion with some old vice grips and beating on them. It moved pretty easy to the position in the picture, but it stopped hard there. Since I have had it, it has never been any lower than that in the picture.