On Jul 30, 2:15*pm, "Happy" wrote:
"jps" wrote in message

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:40:33 -0500, "Happy"
wrote:

I spent the day installing a strut bearing and then installed the strut
and
rebuilt shaft on a 30' Marinette today, had to have shims made to get the
shaft aliened because the last owner had a bad repair with screwed up
shims
and the shaft was binding and had ben run in a bind for years, the new
owner
said he had never been able to open the throttle up with out vibration and
now I know why, and then after a couple hours got her all buckled up and
ready to go, the guy is going to make the Golconda to Chattanooga and back
run down the Tennessee river. I think the Marinette is my next boat as
there
cheap and almost indestructible and I really like the direct drive and the
cost of repair is peanuts compaired to an outdrive, but the prop and ruder
seemed really small for a 30ft boat?, I have never worked on a Marinette
before and getting the strut shimed right was a chore.I hate working on
houseboats with outdrives$$$ and down time.
yep I really like the old *Marinette's

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thanks for the correction, *I commonly misspell aligned- Hide quoted text -

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I commonly missspell or mis-type a lot of words (see what I mean?)

direct drives are cool. But with good servicing, and mercruiser OD
will last quite well for quite a while.

Do you still use "lead rope" packing for your shaft seal[s]? or ahve
they done away with that now?