On Jul 31, 8:44*am, "mmc" wrote:
"Happy" wrote in message

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"Tim" wrote in message
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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

aligned

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

I'm not sure what we used Tim, I spent the whole day dealing with the
shim's, never made it top side to see. I suspect it was something updated.
By the end of the day I was beat....

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The reason I asked is because my old '64 Chris Craft used a lead
impregnated rope that you packed the shaft with. It's good to know
that there is better stuff out there.