Prop loose on shaft?

[jamie N]

Looking at the positive side of things, when you get your new engine, it'll be going to a 'shiny bright' engine bay, and the prop issue will have had a good coat of 'looking at'!

 

[webcraft]

Well, the engine is knackered and the eventual new one will need a lift-out to fit a bigger raw water inlet, so it will get a looking at then.

- W

 

[capnsensible]

Once over the cost of a new engine, I rapidly enjoyed the confidence of reliable power at the touch of a button.

A bit harder was a new gearbox on my other boat. Apparently they are not made out of kryptonite but cost as much as if they were...

 

[greeny]

Ouch. Sounds expensive. Sorry to hear that.

 

[Beneteau381]

If you pony up the dosh for the shortie please don’t feel obliged to post photographic evidence..

Hee hee, I used to cut a dashing figure in a wet suit, sadly shorties only seem to accentuate my well developed tum!

 

[Norman_E]

If your prop shaft has slipped back by small amount and the weight of the gearbox is pulling down the shaft, the tip of the blade could be hitting off the top of the rudder cut out. This is based on the image you posted.

My own experience of removing a coupling in the water resulted in the shaft slipping backwards rather fast and striking the skeg, which surprised me, as I assumed it would be clamped reasonably well by stuffing box and cutless bearing. On hindsight, of course not!

Double nutting in rotating things is an unreliable method of securing the fastening.

On my boat the distance from the cutless bearing back to the rudder is such that a prop shaft can fall right out of the boat if the shaft anode is missing! My tip whenever preparing to remove the coupling is to clamp a shaft anode onto the shaft inside the boat so that the shaft can only move back until the anode touches the shaft seal. That way you have no risk of flooding the boat.

 

[mjcoon]

What's happened to this thread: latest posting "N/A"?

 

[RichardS]

What's happened to this thread: latest posting "N/A"?

It's because the thread has been moved to PBO.

Richard

 

[Beneteau381]

What's happened to this thread: latest posting "N/A"?

Something wrong with this forum, I keep getting a pop up saying its google then it sticks on a crappy website.

 

[mjcoon]

It's because the thread has been moved to PBO.

Richard

You'd think there would be a message stating that! (I've never been to PBO, since I am not a BO.) Rather a late decision, too...