stuffing box

My beloved sailboat forum, Time to point me in the right direction one more time: Below is a picture of my stuffing box for my 1980 Oday 30. Always left a small pool of water in the engine room. Now when I touch the rubber portion, water sprays. If I engage the transmission, no leaks, only...

What is the proper wrench/tool to loosen both the lock nut and tighten the packing nut for a stuffing box. I’ve seen adjustable wrenches, channel locks, pipe wrenches, and chain wrenches. I’ve also heard the refrain “much easier with the proper tool” but no reference to the proper tool.

Hello, I just noticed that my stuffing box (aka “packing gland”) started leaking with around 1 drop every 12 seconds with the engine off, and 1 drop every 3-5 seconds with it on. I looked at the boat survey from when the last owner bought it, and it seems as if it has not been replaced since 10...

Hi all; I can't find the specs for the required packing to redo the stuffing box on our Hunter 30T. Anyone have experience with this?

As I've mentioned on this forum before, I'm not the most handy guy but owning a sailboat means doing a lot of maintenance yourself or paying a lot of money for someone else to do it. If the job gets too complicated I tend to bail out and pay for it...a good example is when I had a new RAM mic...

Hello, Hoping to get some help regarding repacking the stuffing box on my new-to-me '85 O'Day 28'. I'm trying to repack and no matter what I do I cannot seem to get the lock nut loosened. I'm attempting from the port lazarette if that's helpful. Things I've tried: Loosening with 14" heavy...

Hi all, This is the photo of my stuffing box. As you can see it has a pipe to a seacock that I guess it is for cooling the stuffing box...but I have not idea. So questions are: What is this pipe for? should the seacocks be always open? Maintenance of the stuffing box: I have read that when I...

Lots of good work done. New prop shaft, shaft log, cutlass bearing and engine mounts. Reconditioned prop and strut. Refastened. I have more before pics and a vid if how bad the shaft and log were. May post later. Thanks for looking.

I'm currently undergoing a complete rebuild of this boat. I am committed to my rebuild and have gone a long way from where I started. I have now got to the point where I need to take out the rudder. I'm confident that I can figure out how to remove it but any pointers would be nice. Additionally...

The stuffing box on my 1983 Catalina 27 recently started leaking, even while at rest. The leak was quite bad, filling the bilge in a matter of 36 hours. I was able to adjust each nut enough to slow it but rate is still very high. I didn't have the right tools to work on it properly tonight but...