How much drip is too much? Please advise

(sangerlover) · (sangerlover) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 04-29-2007, 7:49 PM

Never really paid much attention until this weekend while out on the water and noticed a drip drip drip from the propeller shaft about 8" down from the v drive unit. I think I have heard this is normal and if so how much is too much? Is it a slow drip or a steady drip drip drip? Or is this even normal? Too much beer today, hope I made a little sense.

BTW, boat is a 03 Sanger V210.

(cbrown) · (cbrown) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 04-29-2007, 8:45 PM

It is not so much a problem of too much drip. Typically 1 drop every 10-15 seconds will suffice but too much is not a problem, the problem lies when there is too little water dripping. Then the shaft is not being lubricated like it is supposed to be.

(rio_sanger) · (rio_sanger) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 04-30-2007, 7:27 AM

JTW you don't say if it is with propshaft turning or stopped. turning it should drip about 6-10 drops per minute.a little more is ok, but stopped it should not drip, if so packing nut needs to be tightened... easy to do. great boat!

(peter_c) · (peter_c) **Join Date: Sep 2001** 04-30-2007, 7:43 AM

"stopped it should not drip" <Bad info if it uses packing. Now if it is a dripless packing it should not leak at all.

(showtime) · (showtime) **Join Date: Nov 2005** 04-30-2007, 7:52 AM

agreed PETER -- it should drip no matter if it is turning or stopped...

(dh03r6) · (dh03r6) **Join Date: Mar 2007** 04-30-2007, 8:09 AM

OJ makes a dripless system, works great

(entrustclothing)

i had problems with this on my xlv last year, they would tighten it and it would back out and just start pissing water so the bilge would come on every 15mins or so. they replaced it with a dripless packing nut and it's been fine now

(sangerlover) · (sangerlover) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 04-30-2007, 8:51 AM

Please see attachment below.It drips approx 2 drip per second. Is this too much and if so how do I tighten this?

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(jon4pres) · (jon4pres) **Join Date: May 2004** 04-30-2007, 10:22 AM

Where the shaft goes into the hull there is a nut that you tighten. I would take the tools and do it on the water so you can judge how much water is coming in.

If you keep tightening it and it still leaks then you need new packing rope inside of the nut.

(Message edited by jon4pres on April 30, 2007)

(sangerlover) · (sangerlover) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 04-30-2007, 12:04 PM

From what I have read if I back off the locking nut and snug up the packing nut and then re tighten the locking nut I should be good unless the packing is shot and then new packing would be required.

(topside_marine)

Jeff,

You are correct.

bill

(bchesley) · (bchesley) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 05-01-2007, 12:12 PM

Get the boat up to operating temp and then adjust one drip per second while just floating. Any less and you risk shaft damage. Any more and you have extra ballast. I prefer the extra ballast over a burned shaft.

Brad

(denverd1)

brad, that sounds like a lot of drips. from what i understood, it was more like a drip every 5-10 seconds. i haven't checked this out and want to look at it this weekend.

(helinut) · (helinut) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 05-01-2007, 3:39 PM

Odd question here... doesn't the manufacturer address this in the owners manual?

Just curious.

Shawn

(jetskiprosx) · (jetskiprosx) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 05-01-2007, 4:28 PM

I had always thought that only dd's non-drip less packings. All the v-drives that I have been on were drip less...learn something new everyday!

edit: We got replaced our packing system with a drip less system and I am so glad that we made the change. I have no idea why, but we could never get ours adjusted right and after 2 times out it was all out of wack.

(Message edited by jetskiprosx on May 01, 2007)