[C320-list] Wet Bilge due to packing gland. Normal?
Brad Kuether
bkuether at comcast.net
Thu Jun 23 09:56:18 PDT 2011
Jeff - Assume GFO means the gortex packing....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hare" <catalina at thehares.com>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Wet Bilge due to packing gland. Normal?
Hello,
This is an opinion piece related to the shaft seal and dry bilge so
obviously you're free to disagree.
I used to be a big believer in the PSS shaft seal. I still think its a good
product. But the GFO product does just as good a job as the old model pss
did (considering that burping the seal let in way more water than my GFO
packing does today).
Now that only the vented version is available i'm not as sold since (for me)
it adds additional points of failure that I'm not as comfortable with.
The likelihood of a GFO failure is minuscule compared to the likelihood of
some part of the PSS system failing. And the results of a failure in the PSS
would likely be a bigger problem than a GFO/stuffing box failure.
So, that's why I switched to GFO after 5 happy years without incident using
the old model PSS even though the company sent me a free upgrade to the
vented version and strongly urged me to use this instead.
-jeff
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