Greaser question

[mick]

Thanks to all who posted in response to my dry bilge post. Neurosis calmed. I have the old style of stern gland with rope packing and a remote greaser, the sort with a little cap which you screw in to push the grease through a tube. I normally give the cap a turn or two before staring the engine and then after every 2 hours running. Enough? Too much? Too little? Thanks in advance.

 

[KellysEye]

We use our greasers every two hours.

 

[halcyon]

Our remote greaser has a spring inside, keeps a constant feed to stern gland.

Brian

 

[paul_williams]

two hours should be adequate. those auto greasers are great, as long you keep them topped up, usually big enough to last a while though. my last inboard boat had grease gun plumbed into to gland with a flexible hose. when it ran out, you just replaced the cartridge. lot less messy than the alternative.

 

[reeac]

I used to have a boat with such a remote greaser and decided that the best policy regarding frequency of greasing was to turn the handle so as just to take up any slack which had developed and to check for free play every few hours of motoring. I've heard it said that you should screw the thing hard down but then there are always those who advocate extremes - do such people tighten their Blakes seacocks to the extent that they need two hands to operate them, I wonder?

 

[Poignard]

That's what I do.

I think pumping too much grease in is a bad thing because it clogs up the grooves in the Cutless bearing, which should have water going through them and not grease.