Talk about a 5-gallon Home depot plastic TUB fulla’ worms !! Am I glad that I have a 9.9 outboard on Moustaches.
(Tho’ it does make a racket (Tohatsu, natch) when it’s running at about 755 throttle…)
Ernie A. in Toronto
John
I’d be interested In seeing how those blocks epoxied to the underside of the cockpit work out. I have some control wiring I want to run to my boats pedestal and I’d like to take that route too.
Mike
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1986 30U
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I’m likely going to simply rebuild (new bellows and grub screws and o-rings) or replace the PSS shaft seal that I have now. It has been absolutely maintenance-free to date (some 8 years). I won’t really know the condition of the shaft until I pull it all apart, but I’m hoping that the relatively short 1" shaft won’t run into multiple hundreds of dollars if required.
I’m certain that the bad mount contributed to the vibration, but by the time I get everything fixed I’ll have completed the soundproofing exercise, so the resulting improvement will be a combination of measures.
Of interest to some, I’ve decide that the best way to run wires and hoses around the engine room (where I don’t have a plywood panel) is to epoxy small plywood blocks to the fibreglass (underside of the cockpit), then glue the foam soundproofing over top. Screws can then be driven into these blocks rather than the fibreglass itself. I can’t think of an easier method. There are just a few cables and hoses that must transition along the bottom of the cockpit, there is no better route.
John
NS30U#400
New Zealand
HI everyone…
Great ideas here and nice to see the Group in action… but please try to stay on topic … all this good info on engine insulating and wiring is now buried in the coupling topic so it is less available to anyone searching for that topic.
For some time we have tried to figure out a way to make a digest of topics but to date the only viable solution is search by topic. So it is helpful if we don’t stray too far off the topic and if there is a tangent worth following a new post / topic would be helpful. As well members receiving a digest of the days posting see the topics and a short abridged part of the postings so they may miss some good info as a result.
Thor
The new engine mounts are installed.