Thread: PSS Shaft Seal
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Armond Perretta
 
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:57:49 -0800, "R.W. Behan"
wrote:

You will generate shaft lash that will cause the
PSS to leak like crazy, and perhaps damage or destroy the bellows.
That will sink your boat.


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And that is precisely why I will not install another one on a boat
that I own. I installed a Lasdrop on one of my old sailboats and it
preformed exactly as advertised but I was appalled at the relative
fragility of the unit compared to an old fashioned shaft log.


The only time I have encountered issues with the PSS was in the case of a
long shaft, typically in trawler designs. It simply did not work well, and
we reverted to a standard gland..

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