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Larry W4CSC
 
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Default Dripless packing injection line floods engine!

Maynard G. Krebbs wrote in
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:36:22 -0400, Ryk
wrote:

Womebody posted a while ago about putting two 55-gallon drums on the
foredeck and then filling them with water till the stern rose high
enough to do the packing gland.
{Probably depends a lot on the individual boat.
Mark E. Williams


That'd work on my Watertender 9.4.....(c;

I doubt 110 gallons of water would tilt an Amel Sharki ketch over an inch
at the bow....I weigh a third of that and it doesn't budge...(c;

Larry