Removing cutlass bearings is fun.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by thefishingfreak

Haha. Been there x2
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You had your struts out too didn't you?

Makes it SOOOO much easier.

My strut is shimmed, gonna make a new shim (instead of washers) out of G10.

Thank god for machine shops.

Sawzall with a demo blade made quick work of it as long as you had a buddy watching from the other end with a flashlight.

[beamie]

Likwid,

You had the strut off and you couldn't press it out, or make yourself a homemade puller out of all thread, washers and a pipe nipple? Was it held in with allens also or just an interference fit?

[likwid]

Originally Posted by beamie

Likwid,

You had the strut off and you couldn't press it out, or make yourself a homemade puller out of all thread, washers and a pipe nipple? Was it held in with allens also or just an interference fit?

USUALLY easier to just cut the stupid things than it is to play games with making a puller.

I've got a prop puller of doom (5/8" tool steel plates, very very heavy threaded rod) but a cutlass puller would be used so rarely its not worth it.

And my strut is stepped in the bore so its all moot.

May talk to scandia about having them bore it smooth. (twin set screws along with it being a VERY tight fit, it would NOT budge even with a sledge and drift)

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by likwid

USUALLY easier to just cut the stupid things than it is to play games with making a puller.

That's how I would have done it...Gotta love Sawzall...Nice job

[nightfighter]

Sounds like it was an interference fit... Cannot confirm from the damage recon photo. (You're a butcher) Hope you are going with a clearance fit bearing for the replacement. However, if you do go with an interference fit, ice the bearing and have the receiver heated up since it's winter. Makes for an easier press fit.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

Sounds like it was an interference fit... Cannot confirm from the damage recon photo. (You're a butcher) Hope you are going with a clearance fit bearing for the replacement. However, if you do go with an interference fit, ice the bearing and have the receiver heated up since it's winter. Makes for an easier press fit.

Its pressed, all struts have set screws as a "safety".

I'll take it to Scandia and have them press it.

I've gotta drop off a big boat MaxProp to get rebuilt anyhow.
I'll have them clean up the sad 35 year old bore. (Strut casting has 1/23/1976 on it)

And butcher?
There isn't a single tool or blade mark in the bore of the strut.
Butcher my a@#$

[nightfighter]

Get out of the kitchen....

Did you try heat before surgery? Be sure they can identify what bearing will work before they do the bore... Don't ask me how I know. But it may save you from replacing with a larger shaft.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

Get out of the kitchen....

Did you try heat before surgery? Be sure they can identify what bearing will work before they do the bore... Don't ask me how I know. But it may save you from replacing with a larger shaft.

Scandia knows their chit. They've been in the prop/shaft business since the beginning of time and do beautiful work.

I'd recommend them before ANYONE else for prop/shaft work/repair/anything.

Interesting that its a 10" strut bore but only a single 4 1/2" cutlass. The extra support is certainly nice to make sure there's never any vibration. (even after 35 years)

[nightfighter]

I think cutlass size is determined by shaft diameter. I think. Been too long.