ODay 322 Packing Gland Wrench advice

[PatTormey]

The Packing Gland on my 87 ODay 322 seems to have crown nuts and is badly gummed up by the dreaded green corrosion,
Anybody have advice? I'd like to find a pair of wrenches and something nontoxic to dissolve the green slime.
Note Boat is in the water.
Thanks

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Pat
Blue Skies
Portsmouth NH

 

[woodster]

take a ss wire hand brush and clean it up then you can proceed ...you may need to lather it up with tabasco sauce i have found that to be very good at cleaning corrosion off of bronze

 

[Maine Sail]

Looks like a Spartan Packing box. They sell the proper wrenches. Just google Spartan Bronze....

 

[PatTormey]

Looks like a Spartan Packing box. They sell the proper wrenches. Just google Spartan Bronze....

THANKS Spartan it is! I did manage to adjust it using the BFH technique but would prefer the right tool for the job.
I'll order it tomorrow!

Pat
Blue Skies
Portsmouth NH