{"id":33,"date":"2014-04-30T22:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T02:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sailnomad.us\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2014-05-07T01:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T05:59:49","slug":"cutlass-bearing-replacement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"Cutlass Bearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Cutlass Bearing\u00a0 Replacement<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to remove the rudder (it slides forward as well as down) we had to remove the prop shaft.<\/p>\n

\"Rudder<\/a><\/p>\n

Once the prop shaft was out, there was the cutlass bearing staring at me . . . you know how it goes.\u00a0 After much searching on the internet I decided to go with Vesconite Marine Bearings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course to install a new bearing you must remove the old bearing.\u00a0 The old bearing was bronze with a rubber core.\u00a0 There were two set screws (places for 3) that had to be chipped out of the fiberglass and removed first.\u00a0 After trying a number of approaches we decided to cut the bearing out with a sawzall.\u00a0 Important to go slow here, make one cut and bend inward to free bearing.\u00a0 If you see white dust you are cutting the fiberglass tube!<\/p>\n

\"Bearing_Cut\"<\/a>\"Bearing_Out\"<\/a>For the record the shaft tube was exactly 2 inches in diameter, and the prop shaft is 1.25 inches in diameter.<\/p>\n

New Vesconite bearings only come in a 2 1\/4 diameter and are 6 inches long.\u00a0 The old bearing was 5 inches long.\u00a0 New Vesconite bearing below.<\/p>\n

\"Vesconite_Side\"<\/a>\"Vesconite_Front\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This meant a trip to the local machine shop to have the bearing machined to 2 inches in diameter.\u00a0 We also decided to cut the bearing to 4 7\/16 so that we could use a puller if the bearing ever needed removed again.\u00a0 Machined bearing below, shown with a sliver of it’s pre-machined state.<\/p>\n

\"Vesconite_Machined\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Installing the new bearing was much easier, just lightly pound it in.\u00a0\u00a0 We installed two set screws by drilling two holes in the new bearing and tapping them to match the screw threads.\u00a0 New bearing installed below – notice set screws . . . now need to fiberglass it in.<\/p>\n

\"Bearing_Installed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bearing with fiberglass repair.<\/p>\n

\"20140502_091250\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before reinstalling the propshaft Randy double checked that the transmission coupling would slide back into place.<\/p>\n

\"20140502_093034\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Randy Neiman guiding propshaft back into hull.<\/p>\n

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Cutlass Bearing\u00a0 Replacement In order to remove the rudder (it slides forward as well as down) we had to remove the prop shaft. Once the prop shaft was out, there was the cutlass bearing staring at me . . . you know how it goes.\u00a0 After much searching on the internet I decided to go … Continue reading Cutlass Bearing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4j4f7-x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/61"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}