P Bracket replacement

[ukyachty]

On my 25 year old Moody 39 a few days ago I checked the cutless bearing in the P bracket and it was quite worn so I took the drive shaft out. Then I scraped the anitfoul off the bracket and noticed it was very coppery coloured in places and extensively dezincified. So I removed the P bracket. After cleaning everything up I found the the base of the bracket was quite small relative to the recess in the hull, ie 4.25X6" against 6.5X8" and was mounted on a wedge shaped wood block which was slightly larger than the bracket base and tapered down from 3/4" to about zero from aft to forward. Is this normal and where do I go from here? PS yacht's in Portugal - P bracket's in UK (as of 22/4).

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[tonykerry]

Log onto the Moody Owners web site and look at the technical library, there is a host of useful information there that should answer your question. You will need a password to log on, just contact the administrator and he will provide one on a temporary basis. If you get a problem just come back to me.

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[Skyva_2]

Unfortunately the original poster posted to the MOA web a few days ago and so far had no reply, and the Technical Library cannot help on this one. So if anyone here can help we would all be grateful....

MOA Technical Editor

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