packing flax, replace or tighten
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Topic: packing flax, replace or tighten
Posted By: mamigacz
Subject: packing flax, replace or tighten
Date Posted: July-28-2014 at 1:40pm
I replaced the packing flax about 4 years ago. Since the repack, I put 75 hours on the boat. The last three times out I have tightened the gland to avoid excessive dripping (drip every second). Unfortunately, I never had good tools for tightening out on the water, so I have not been able to crank on the nut with a lot of force.
Should I get crank it tighter or repack? I was nervous about shaft damage from tightening it too tight.
Thanks,
Mark
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Posted By: GlassSeeker
Date Posted: July-28-2014 at 3:35pm
75 hrs is not much to the packing...just tighten a little...should not ever use alot of force to tighten packing nut.
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Posted By: gun-driver
Date Posted: July-28-2014 at 3:37pm
You can do two things
1) replace it with some new gore-tex (my choice of flax)
2) try tightening it to get the required drip rate then run it for a little while and then check it to see if it's hot. If it's getting hot refer to step one.
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Posted By: MrMcD
Date Posted: August-03-2014 at 6:19am
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I replaced mine earlier this year, no need to tighten, turn down till you feel it touch the rope and turn a little more by hand. I have trouble getting mine to drip using standard flax packing. I installed gortex packing first and by mistake tightened too much, it started getting hot right away so I loosened it up on the first test drive. I could get no leak at all so I pulled it and replaced it. It might have been fine but I felt bad about my initial setting and re did it. Just did a 4 day camp trip and had all of 1 cup of water in the bilge at trips end, boat in the lake the entire time. 18 hours run time now.
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