Take a dremel tool and cut off that wire as close as you can to the rudder and forget about this tail wheel. It will likely break out of your rudder some day on a less than perfect landing. Get a Sullivan tail wheel that mounts to the bottom of the fuse and uses a spring wire in the bottom of the rudder for direction control.
Sullivan tail wheel:
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXFV47&P=ML
EDIT:// What part of NC are you in? I am near Fayetteville.