[C320-list] I have a hot stuffing box...

[Joe Barrett]

How the heck do you get the old packing out?
Joe Barrett 


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-----Original Message-----
From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
[mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of
catalina at thehares.com
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:17 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] I have a hot stuffing box...

Hi Chris,

   I've seen the same thing on #809 when I first installed it.  I simply
backed it off so that it was loose, then just "finger tip" tight.  Then
tighten the lock nut against it (although I suggest a little anti-sieze
grease between the faces of the nut and lock nut so that it's easy to
re-adjust later.

It ran cool after that.  I also noticed a couple drops of black goop when it
was running hot but nothing harmful after I loosened it up.

Then keep an eye on it over the next dozen hours of motoring time and you
should be good to go.

-Jeff H.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com]On Behalf Of Chris 
> Willems
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:11 AM
> To: c320-list at lists.catalina320.com
> Subject: [C320-list] I have a hot stuffing box...
>
>
> ... this is perhaps the lamest pick up line, ever...
>
> Lisa and I purchased  #828 at the end of last year, and among 1,000 
> other "little" jobs, I repacked the stuffing box with 3 rings of 1/4" 
> GFO packing.
>
> I could barely get the stuffing nut back on due to the bulk of the 
> stuffing, so I snugged it up a bit (with a wrench - I know,  a NO NO!)  
> to be sure it was on.  It appears I overtightened as in the two times 
> I've run her (about an hour each, low rpms) the stuffing box gets hot, 
> almost too hot to touch.  Each time I've eased back on the locknut and 
> stuffing nut.
>
> A bit of black goo has come out at the end of the stuffing box around 
> the shaft.
>
> Have I toasted the GFO packing?
>
> Advice welcomed.  Admonishments accepted... I feel so novice... a 32' 
> boat is so much bigger than a 25'
> boat!  I'm learning, and stubborn.  We love her and "this too shall 
> pass".  Like a gallstone perhaps, but it will.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris Willems
> "Chrysalis" #828
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