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Old 01-28-2022, 09:04 AM   #4
DaveMedd
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Steve

I’ve read many of your articles previously - thanks for posting those - always amazing help.

The shafts turned but not freely. I’ve replaced all six cutless and have replaced the couplings with split type. On port shaft, Prior owner had used masking tape to increase shaft diameter at the coupling. My guess is the bow in the shaft probably wore the down the circumference of the shaft at the coupling. And he was just trying to get it to work. She’s a woody boat so the vibrations weren’t actually that bad.

The cutless in the logs were trashed. The two in the struts were ok but replaced them anyways.

I’m thinking that with the pitting at the taper, some wear at the shaft log cutless, the .020 and .008 out on the shafts “true” that these probably need to be replaced. Else I’ll risk never really getting them aligned to a <.004 tolerance.

What do you think?
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