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leetudor
Groupie Joined: August-29-2014 Location: Mount Juliet,TN Status: Offline Points: 96 |
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How does this prop nut hot garbage work out? I bet this is not factory setup either.
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8122pbrainard
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Lee,
It looks like the PO used a prop with it's bore bigger than the shaft? Is the prop at least seated on the shaft taper or loose? How close is the prop hub to the strut?
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leetudor
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I am going to pull the prop tomorrow and see what is up. When I first looked I just noticed how close it was to the strut and not all of the spacers. The prop is maybe a sheet of paper from the strut.
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leetudor
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Well in this politically correct world, this thing was rigged. Prop must be 1 1/4" hub, as a 1 1/8" prop I had sitting around fits the shaft correctly. Someone had to make a special keyway to match the shaft and the prop. They used Teflon tape to take up some of the slack.
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GottaSki
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Ugh.
Amazing the effort people make to do things wrong and be proud of it afterward
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"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worthwhile as messing around with boats...simply messing."
River Rat to Mole |
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ultrarunner
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WOW, that's not something you see everyday!
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SNobsessed
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It's amazing it stayed on at all.
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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Ben Franklin |
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ultrarunner
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I’ll say. Had to been a good vibration. All held together by that cotter pin. Loose a prop at sea and someone stocked the wrong size spare, ok, I get that. But on purpose for daily use??? That’s some thinking there. In all fairness, it does case me to pause and think a bit at what I did to keep my old cars running as a kid with little or no money;-) |
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leetudor
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So I installed the standoff transmission mounted shift cable bracket and routed the cable the new way. Well have to order a new cable 8 feet shorter now. The way things are going, I am going to install the cable before I change the throw on the handle side as it could be wrong.
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leetudor
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Hope to have it running this week! |
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