jakew009
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Could a SC29 be moored in a drying harbour? Would the outdrives lift high enough?
Sealing SC29 / S28 drying out
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FatherTed
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Here is my S28 sitting in the mud at Newport (IOW), problem you will have is critters living on the exposed ram and damaging the oil seal when you lower the leg.
FatherTed
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The legs on a SC29 lift higher than the S28 and come out of the water when afloat.
Sianna
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Yup it's an expensive problem too, I learnt this the hard way, drives always down now.
oldgit
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Surely if the leg is up the stainless rod is mostly enclosed inside the the cylinder body and protected from accretions.
Its when the leg is down that the entire rod is exposed and vunerable to barncules etc ?
When the outdrive is subsquently raised with any growth attached, it then damages the seals ?
Would suggest that a visit at low water to your drying harbour is in order.
Lots of other outdrive boats present suggests everything should be OK, if none, probably for very good reason.
A hard sandy bottom is a completely different kettle of fish to lovely soft muddy bottom.
Vast numbers of outdrive boats survive on drying berths in the South East bit of UK.
Its when the leg is down that the entire rod is exposed and vunerable to barncules etc ?
When the outdrive is subsquently raised with any growth attached, it then damages the seals ?
Would suggest that a visit at low water to your drying harbour is in order.
Lots of other outdrive boats present suggests everything should be OK, if none, probably for very good reason.
A hard sandy bottom is a completely different kettle of fish to lovely soft muddy bottom.
Vast numbers of outdrive boats survive on drying berths in the South East bit of UK.
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simonfraser
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if the leg is up the rod is exposed
yes the boats survive, the ODs are a different problem
yes the boats survive, the ODs are a different problem
oldgit
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if the leg is up the rod is exposed
yes the boats survive, the ODs are a different problem
Sorry you are 100% correct.
Its been a while since outdrives blighted my boating world.
Sianna
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Its the other way round,
here's a very dirty outdrive leg up
and the same, now much cleaner leg down
the piston ram is clearly seen exposed with the leg up which lets accretions attach, then when the leg is dropped these can tear the piston seals, at least that's what happened to mine.
simonfraser
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'the piston ram is clearly seen exposed with the leg up which lets accretions attach, then when the leg is dropped these can tear the piston seals, at least that's what happened to mine'
yep that is the common issue with these rams left in the water
yep that is the common issue with these rams left in the water
Sianna
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'the piston ram is clearly seen exposed with the leg up which lets accretions attach, then when the leg is dropped these can tear the piston seals, at least that's what happened to mine'
yep that is the common issue with these rams left in the water
Wished someone had told me earlier ???
simonfraser
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did you ask 
