jamie N
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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'!
Hee hee, I used to cut a dashing figure in a wet suit, sadly shorties only seem to accentuate my well developed tum!If you pony up the dosh for the shortie please don’t feel obliged to post photographic evidence..
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.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.
It's because the thread has been moved to PBO.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.What's happened to this thread: latest posting "N/A"?
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...It's because the thread has been moved to PBO.
Richard