Deering Goodtime - Head

CHANGING THE HEAD
If you’re not confi dent in your ability to change the head correctly
after reading this section, please have a qualifi ed repairman do it for
you while you watch, so that next time you will be prepared to do it
yourself. If you have a Goodtime resonator model, you will fi rst have
to remove the resonator before you begin the process outlined below.
Remove the strings, tailpiece, and bridge. Take notice of how the 1.
tailpiece was adjusted, so you can replace it where it was.
You will need to loosen and remove the neck on your Goodtime 2.
banjo to change the head. Begin this process by loosening one of the
two 5/16” nuts at the tailpiece side of the pot assembly; one will be
on the interior of the pot/rim and the other will be on the outside
of the rim. You will have already removed the outer nut when you
removed your tailpiece.
Now go to the side of the pot assembly/rim where the neck is 3.
attached. Remove the small nut and washers around the upper
hanger bolt. You will see a small portion of that screw sticking out
of the pot, above your coordinator rod.
Your next step is to loosen the coordinator rod itself. You will simply 4.
need to turn it like you would when removing a nut.  is will
expose the other hanger bolt holding the neck in place. Remove the
rod and washers.
You should now be able to back the neck out to remove the tension 5.
hoop and banjo head once you have removed the j-bolts.
Loosen all the bracket nuts with a bracket wrench, and then unhook 6.
the j-bolts from the tension hoop, leaving the j-bolts attached to
the rim.