Advice On Dripless Stuffing Box & Shaft Savers

[MetricMountie]

I need some advice on the purchase and installation of a set of Shaft Savers and a Dripless Stuffing Box for our 1992, 35.5.

Any advice or opinions on best manufacturer of either product and ease of installation would be very much appreciated. Hopefully, we'll get a repreive from this horrid winter in the very near future so I can get back aboard and install both units.

Thanks for any and all advice or opinions.

Metric Mountie

 

[Bill Roosa]

Dripless stuffing boxes
at $300 ish plus install if you have somebody else do it and you have to hall the boat I believe
vs
$$5.00 for a new packing that lasts at least a year

It will take about 60 years to break even if you never do maintenance on the dripless (which is also expensive).

Just sayin

 

[Don Lucas]

My PSS developed a leak 2 years ago for the flexible boot and I feel that is a big weakness of the system. I was going to replace it with a standard stuffing box, but I found a good deal on a Lasdrop Generation II seal that had the same type of rubber sleeve so replaced with that. Those expandable rubber boots of the PSS type seals scare the crap out of me.

 

[Michael G]

I have had a PSS shaft seal for 9 years and absolutely love it . Works great and the best thing is you have a dry boat. Replaced the bellows last year as preventive maintenance and found the original bellows was in great shape. A lot of people don't know how to accurately adjust as standard stuffing box thus taking a chance of overheating or scoring the shaft which is super expensive to replace. Just my opinion !!!

Mike