78puget-trawler
Guru
How many of you 34 CHB guys have any kind of shaft bearing between the coupling and the stuffing box?
I had one just ahead of the stuffing box and of course over the last couple of years enough water got into it to ruin it. Mech took it off yesterday, I took it out today on his recommendation and ran it at various speeds to look for any vibration. There was none, ran like it always has and the horrible growl that I had coming in from the last cruise is gone.
I had feared it was the transmission going south, but it was this bearing.
So just curious how many other CHB's have an intermediate bearing.
TIA
I had one just ahead of the stuffing box and of course over the last couple of years enough water got into it to ruin it. Mech took it off yesterday, I took it out today on his recommendation and ran it at various speeds to look for any vibration. There was none, ran like it always has and the horrible growl that I had coming in from the last cruise is gone.
I had feared it was the transmission going south, but it was this bearing.
So just curious how many other CHB's have an intermediate bearing.
TIA