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Finally got it off. I saturated it with CorrosionX for a week or so. Then I used a Buck-Algonquin puller. Instead of using the center screw which has a coarse thread, I used four 3” fine thread bolts. I tightened the center post enough so that there was a half inch gap between the flange on the pull...

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Great news. What repairs did they make.

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Bob

I am in the lot across the street, behind the freight company warehouse. If you pull into the lot you can’t miss her.

I just sent you a PM with my cell phone #.

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Carl, I followed your directions and used a 5/16" cobalt bit, running the drill at slow speed. It took me about two hours, not including breaks to rest my arm, to drill out the set screw. My hole was a bit more than 1/16" off center so there was a fragment of a bolt left in the forward side of the h...

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Carl,

Love the sound. Glad to hear that you are making progress.

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Bob

Thanks.

I will be there Monday morning until around noon. I am going to try drilling the set screw out with a cobalt bit.

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Bob,

She is at Westin’s in Sayville.

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Carl wrote:...and if you do go into the threads...not the end of the world to go up a thread size.

I’m going to be putting new split couplings on both sides so I am not worried about the threads.

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I will try to drill it out but I am not optimistic about it as I understand that the set screws are hardened steel.

The screw broke of flush with the surface so no threads are exposed.

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After soaking the set screws on my starboard side prop shaft coupling for nearly six months, I tried to loosen them with a four point socket and a breaker bar. The first one came right out but the second one broke off flush with the coupling. I have a four inch angle grinder and a box of cutting dis...

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Progressive. I have my homeowner's and car insurance with USAA, but when Suffolk County where I keep my sailboat increased their requirement for liability USAA sent me to Progressive. I have never had a claim with Progressive, but USAA has always been good on claims.

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My headliner is also in three pieces, one small access panel forward and center and two larger sections, port and starboard side. Dropping one of the large sections is relatively easy. The hard part of the job is holding one of these panels in place while I line up the screw holes which I solved tha...

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Carl,

I read your story to my wife who is a retired English teacher. She asked me to read it a second time and was so touched by it that she cried.

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Mine are 1 1/4".

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Forty some years ago I spent one winter resurrecting a 16' wooden sail boat. After sailing her for two seasons I sold her and bought a fiberglass boat.

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Carl and Bob,

After reading this thread from start to finish, I think that I have a clearer understanding of the process of fitting a coupling. Thanks for the clearly written, detailed explanation.

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Buck-Algonquin sells a flange puller which makes the task of removing the coupling somewhat easier.

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On my boat I was able to access this space by removing a section of the overhead in the upper cabin.

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When I bought my boat, they gave me a pile of maintenance receipts going back ten years or so, including some from the mechanic who had done most of the work. Late in my first season, I called him up with a few questions. His reaction when I identified the boat: "Oh, that old rotten thing? I was jus...

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I started the penetrating oil (PBBlaster, Kroil, CorrosionX) last November when I had her hauled. My plan is to drop the rudder, disconnect the coupling from the transmission, and slide the shaft aft. That way I will be able to reach the set screws through the access hatch over the stuffing box so t...

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Be happy you had four hose clamps...using just two goes along with, what's the difference if I use exhaust hose. And that goes along with the way someone had wired the VHF on the flying bridge to the hot terminal of the navigation light switch and the fish finder to the hot terminal of the blower s...

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Thanks. Clearance will not be a problem because the coupling is already off. Now I am trying to get the shaft off so that I can get a split coupling fitted.

The starboard shaft will be the more challenging one since the set screw on the coupling are rusted.

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I my props are 18" and shaft is 1 3/8". Walter Machine lists two pullers which look applicable, one for up to 20" prop on a 1 1/2" shaft and one for up to 28" on a 2" shaft. Would there be any advantage for me to use the larger one? I currently have the smaller size but managed to break one of the b...

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And have your shaft fit to the coupling. Can that be done without pulling the shaft out of the boat? Also, the attached photo shows what the starboard side stuffing box hose looked like after I remove the four hose clams and cleaned it up a bit. It is clearly marked "wet exhaust". http://www.iperni...

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When I started digging into my stuffing boxes (traditional type) I discovered that the previous owner’ mechanic had used a section of exhaust hose, clearly labeled as such, instead the proper stuffing box type hose on the starboard side.

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Peter, I think that many of us are in a similar situation this year. Early in March I broke my prop puller trying to get my port prop off and decided to have the boat yard finish my stuffing box replacement project. Now with all of the marinas on Long Island closed I suspect that it is unlikely I'll...

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Just received an email from Suffolk County (Long Island) telling me that they are delaying the opening of the marina where I dock my sail boat until May 1. I expect that date to slip. The town of Islip has not closed the boat ramp yet, however.

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The master battery switch in the trunk of my Austin-Healey also grounds the points-side of the coil to kill the ignition when you shut off the battery. You could do something similar on a boat.

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Peter,

Just curious, is your marina allowed to work under the current New York State lockdown rules?

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Peter,

Sorry to hear that.

FWIW, the guys who were driving my boat for her previous owner were running the port engine with a blown heat exchanger when I bought her. After two seasons and about 40 hours running time, I have not seen any evidence of damage to the engine.

Regards,
Peter

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The first time I drove my boat, going from the boat yard in Sayville to Oakdale, I used the lower helm because the starter button on the flying bridge did not work. (This was, literally, the first time I had ever driven a power boat.) Despite the fact that I had had more than forty years experience ...

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I pulled the shrink wrap off today, so now I have the coupler sitting on my desk. I am trying to match its dimensions with the chart for the Walter clamp fit coupling (http://www.waltergear.com/SPLIT-PSC-Chart14.pdf). The closest match to mine is part # 5A with the following exceptions: - my total l...

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My wife says the same thing about the flying bridge, but trying to drive from the lower station is next to impossible. There are just too many blind spots.

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Helsinki, Finland, taken while I was there to celebrate the birthdays of my grandchildren:

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/307687/49718896

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/307687/49718894

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Bob

Sorry to hear about your wife. As others here have said, let us know if we can help in any way.

FWIW, I live in Great River, just a few miles down the road from Sayville

We will be keeping you and your wife in our prayers.

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I would like to thank everyone for all of the advice and suggestions you all have given me in the two years since I joined.

Happy New Year to all of you.

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Carl, Thanks. I'll touch base to set up a time to come over as soon as I can get the prop shaft out of the boat. It might be a while because the yard just finished shrink wrapping. I requested that they put a door in the shrink wrap but they don't usually get to that part until January. I'm going to...

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Unless I have missed something, it looks like my prop shaft coupling was an interference fit. The coupling binds when I try to fit it to the shaft, even without the key in place. I spent about an hour trying to "persuade" it to go on and only got it about 1/2" on to the end of the shaft. Unless I ha...

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Carl,

Thanks for all of the pointers. After having no luck with conventional bits I bought a couple of cobalt alloy bits. Took less than 10 minutes to create one dimple, running the drill dead slow in 10 second pulses.

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I am preparing to install my new rudders and I need to drill a dimple in the shaft of each one for the set screw in the safety collar. Is this something that I can do with a normal hand-held power drill or should I take the rudders to a machine shop? The stainless steel is so hard that center punch ...

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Stuffing boxes were already on my "must check" list after a friend of my son had his Carver sink in its slip. That's how I ended up with this winter project. The key was in the slot on the coupling when it finally came off of the shaft. It looks like it is brass and seems to be in good shape, not di...

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The flange puller from Buck Algonquin (part #50MCP00500) worked as expected, considerably better than the harmonic balancer puller that I was using. The four slots matched the bolt holes in the flange and were wide enough so that I could use the bolts that had been holding the two halves of the coup...

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The bay looked beautiful today. Of course my boat has been out for almost two weeks.

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Looking at the Buck Algonquin catalog I discovered that they make a puller for a four bolt flange. I ordered one from Deep Blue Yacht Supply. I will let you know how it works out.

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Carl, I have until at least the end of March so I'll keep up with the penetrating oil. I am also planning to replace my exhaust hoses so I can do those first. Hopefully I won't run into any roadblocks there. I saw the clamp couplings in the Buck Algonquin catalog. If I use one of those, is there any...

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Carl,

Thanks for the encouragement. I’ve been soaking the set screws in Kroil. I picked up some PBblaster which I will try this week.

I have all of the bolts and set screws on the port shaft out so I will do that stuffing box first while I wait for the starboard side to free up.

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The bolts on the port engine coupling were not corroded. The challenge there was getting enough leverage in the space between the shaft and the deck. There isn't enough room to get a socket on the nut so I could not use a breaker bar. The starboard side has some serious rust because that stuffing bo...

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Thanks for the suggestions. I use three wrenches, one on the front, one on the back, and a third as a lever between the other two. So far I have gotten off the four bolts on the port side and one on the starboard side before I had to stop for the day.

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I am trying to remove my propeller shafts from the transmission coupling so that I can replace the stuffing boxes and their hoses. At least on the port side, the set screws came out easily. Contrary to my previous post the heads on the bolts are square with a size that seems to fall between 3/8" and...

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What do you guys think something like this for flushing the raw water side of the cooling system?

https://www.iboats.com/shop/trac-ecolog ... AqEALw_wcB

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