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Old 02-26-2008, 05:16 PM
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Default RE: Sealing Hinge lines

This is what's known as a harmonic vibration. everything has a frequency at which it wants to vibrate.

Your rudder wants to vibrate at whatever frequency you engine is vibrating when it's at 3/4 throttle.

You could try a couple of things:

First, I would check that the prop is balanced. That alone could very well be the culprit.

The other thing you could do is to add or remove weight to the rudder - which will change its frequency. You could also make the rudder bigger which willl do the same thing.