I did just this in the afternoon. I cleaned everything pretty well. But I found when I removed the worm the entire assembly of ring gear and everything spun freely. When I put the worm back in the RA assembly would have that stickiness again. It seems to be the clutch, even fully loosened it¡¯s a bit sticky. Make it harder to balance in RA. Dec spins freely, just assumed the RA axis would as well.
Mike
