Old black beauty, my 2000 silverado, let me down. She ate fuel pump #5; so my bride drove me down to the boat and she went shopping. Since I only had about 5 hours to work, I only tackled some measurements and some odds and ends.
The packing gland hose size is suppose to be 3-1/2". I used my dial caliper on the gland and the pipe and found it to be 3-3/8" (?) 3.385 (with paint) and 3.430 on the bronze gland. Also the OEM hose was 3 or 4 ply vs. 8-10 ply that Mike had mentioned, plus. mea culpa, no wire in it. The gland showed signs of mis-alignment (duh) so I can see having a non wire hose there. Ya think 3-1/2" will squeeze that far?
I scraped and washed all the bronze stuff and then used Brians(?) suggestion about dunking it in muriatic. DEFINITELY do that outside. The shit smoked up a storm! Choke,choke! The water was off at the yard so I grabbed a bucket of water out of the river to rinse the parts with. My fingers are still numb! ws
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As we used to say, acid f--ks up your jeans, and it does a number on yer chromosones LOL. Seems to work good on the bronze stuff tho... ws
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Comments on the 3 AND 4 ply hose? 3-3/8" seems like a bastard size to me. ws
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ARGHHH !! The strain caught up. This is how the intake hose came off the stariner outlet. It was piped direct to the seacock. Scraped the parts and wahed them too. A little rub on the old wire wheel and this stuff is gonna look like new! ws
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I was a little concerned after washing the sight glass off the 2500 Groco sea stariner. The plastic is pretty crazed. Any comments on that? When running, its under vacuum, but when off... After theyre re-mounted, they'll be above the water line, but is that a reason for everyone else to shut the cox when they leave the boat??? Anyone ever had a glass failure?
The pic was shot with sunlight on the glass to show the crazing. wsLast edited by yachtsmanbill; 12-02-2007 at 07:48 PM.
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I get to admire my collection (almost complete) of 2-1/2"NPT fittings for the strainer job as Alex appears after a hard day of shopping on Black Saturday! She made me drive home too! ws
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1970 45 prop size
I need new props for a 1970 45 with 871 TIs. Any suggestions for prop sizes?