[C320-list] Cutless Bearing Project

[Jeff Smith]

Glad it all worked out. Like Ade, I use a zinc in front to prevent slippage, though a hose clamp would work, as well. This was a lesson learned from the PO when someone replaced his bellows and reused screws. He found out about it when he noticed water above the sole while in the middle of the Bay.

Jeff

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> On Jan 16, 2021, at 8:39 PM, Joe Luciano <jnluciano at comcast.net> wrote:
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> The yard that originally installed my shaft seal put a simple hose clamp tightened to the shaft in order to prevent any slippage of the bellows.  Nothing has moved over many years.
> 
> Joe Luciano 
> Second Wind 
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>> On Jan 16, 2021, at 5:00 PM, Ade Bateman <ade.bateman at outlook.com> wrote:
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>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for all the inputs, especially the recco to replace the bellows.
>>> Although the bellows was perfectly fine in appearance, the bellows had
>>> either taken a set or the rotor had slipped forward on the shaft.  There
>>> was almost no compression force holding the seal to the rotor.   I marked
>>> the shaft with a sharpie as a future reference point and will probably
>>> install some sort of backing to the rotor to help keep it in position.  I
>>> suspect the PO may have taken out the set screws and reused them which is
>>> not reccomended.
>> 
>> My surveyor recommended adding a shaft-zinc to keep things in place. They
>> are relatively cheap, easy to find, and designed to hold in place once you
>> have tightened the bolts. I haven't had any problems since.
>> 
>> Ade.
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