After great pains and exhausting all manner of contraptions I finally cut the nuts off my prop shaft. I tried everything, PB Blaster, salt away, days & days of PB blaster. Anyway, looks to me like the prop was jammed onto the shaft by overly tight nuts and the key is firmly corroded on to the prop. Given the keyway on the shaft is not flat but is tapered it appears any manner of pulling the prop results in a jammed key. I have tried moving the prop each direction, I have tried pushing the key in to get it to move - not luck.
Anybody have a great idea? What about heat - such as in a propane plumber's torch on the prop body itself?. Will heating cause damage to the bronze?
I did do some tapping - not the wind-up type, on the end of the shaft to get the key to move by sliding another key in the slot hoping it might move back and not jam on the tapering of the keyway slot. Now I am worried about possibly hurting my transmission in this process. How sensitive is this? Anyone ever damage their transmission by whacking the end of the prop shaft with a 3 Lb sledge (3-5 wind-up).
Anybody have recommendations or ideas on how t6o resolve this issue?
Anybody have a great idea? What about heat - such as in a propane plumber's torch on the prop body itself?. Will heating cause damage to the bronze?
I did do some tapping - not the wind-up type, on the end of the shaft to get the key to move by sliding another key in the slot hoping it might move back and not jam on the tapering of the keyway slot. Now I am worried about possibly hurting my transmission in this process. How sensitive is this? Anyone ever damage their transmission by whacking the end of the prop shaft with a 3 Lb sledge (3-5 wind-up).
Anybody have recommendations or ideas on how t6o resolve this issue?