leaking boat.....alot now..

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groundhogyh

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May 30, 2006
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So I think it is my stuffing box, which i know very little about.

I am now filling my bilge every day or two. Comming back from Rock Hall yesterday, i saw water on the floor and opened my floor boards to find the batteries submerged.

The boat doesnt have a combi anymore. It has the Fwd/Rev transmission.

The stuffing box looks like just a 5 inch length of rubber tubing with double hose clamps at both ends. On the forward end of the rubber tube is a larger diameter metal piece that has a grease fitting (zerk).

I had trouble greasing this for awhile and I was recently seeing more water appear in the bilge ( this is normally a VERY dry boat). So I investigated and turns out my grease gun was faulty and i successfully squirted a bunch of grease in there. The grease I used was the same stuff that is used on my max-prop. LubriPlate 130 or some such. It is very light brown in color and not extremely thick. Less thick than car axle grease.

I did that before this weekends trip, now the dripping is worse... alot.

Any ideas?

THanks,
groundhog[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
 
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winslowbuoy

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Jan 31, 2009
122
When I first owned 'Jenavive' I had exactly the same stern gland as you described. Each time I visited the boat I would pump a little more grease in. One morning in Swanage I awoke to find water over the cockpit sole. The batteries in the keel were completly flooded. A bit of vigorous pumping soon reduced the water level and revealed the problem, I had put so much grease in the gland that it had pushed the gland off the stern tube, I cleaned off as much grease as I could then refitted the stern gland and tightened up the jubilee clips holding the gland on the stern tube. As soon as I could I fitted an oil reservoir to drip feed oil into the fitting and removed the grease gun approach.

When I fitted a new engine I changed over to a Volvo Boot stern gland which just requires a tiny amount of grease once a year and have found it perfectly acceptable ever since.

Mike
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From: groundhog groundhogyh@...
To: AlbinVega@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 13 August 2012, 19:07
Subject: [AlbinVega] leaking boat.....alot now..

So I think it is my stuffing box, which i know very little about.

I am now filling my bilge every day or two. Comming back from Rock Hall yesterday, i saw water on the floor and opened my floor boards to find the batteries submerged.

The boat doesnt have a combi anymore. It has the Fwd/Rev transmission.

The stuffing box looks like just a 5 inch length of rubber tubing with double hose clamps at both ends. On the forward end of the rubber tube is a larger diameter metal piece that has a grease fitting (zerk).

I had trouble greasing this for awhile and I was recently seeing more water appear in the bilge ( this is normally a VERY dry boat). So I investigated and turns out my grease gun was faulty and i successfully squirted a bunch of grease in there. The grease I used was the same stuff that is used on my max-prop. LubriPlate 130 or some such. It is very light brown in color and not extremely thick. Less thick than car axle grease.

I did that before this weekends trip, now the dripping is worse... alot.

Any ideas?

THanks,
groundhog
 
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SVFlyAway

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Oct 31, 2019
303
There's a saying in medicine that I guess applies to boats as well:
"Anything that can cure you can kill you."
 
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pjacobs55

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Oct 30, 2019
1,459
Hi GH,
Look in the files section for Volvo_Rubber_Stuffing_Boxes.pdf
I'm installing one on the Ballad, as they have a stellar reputation and are about as simple as it comes.
The file has available sizes and part numbers, they are relatively inexpensive.
Peter
www.sintacha.com
 
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Vega1447

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Oct 19, 2019
921
Albin Vega 27 Limerick
Well. ...

If you pump too much grease into the grease nipple for the stern gland/ stuffing box you can pop the lip seal.....

I speak from experience.... :)

John V1447 Breakaway

John Kinsella
Mathematics and Statistics Dept
University of Limerick

Phone 0035361202148
Web jkcray.maths.ul.ie
 
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pjacobs55

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Oct 30, 2019
1,459
You'd be amazed at the power of a grease gun. My friend has a very large tracked excavator. The mechanism for tightening the tracks is powered by a grease gun. The amazing power of hydraulics!
Peter
www.sintacha.com
 
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groundhogyh

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May 30, 2006
1,075
ah hem...

I delayed writing this email,but i have to face the music.

Wasnt I crying that my boat was sinking like a year ago?
I think it was, i remember. .... at the highth of Ice and Beer season?

Well, my dripless shaft seal may still be leaking, but I know some of the water in the bilge is from the ice box that drains to that loocation.

See you next year, when i will have forgotten my lessons and will be crying again !
lol
groundhog
 
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