I had to get back in the bilge, and my packing was leaking so I figured I would go ahead and put a dripless gor type in. I hope these photos can help someone.
Here is the dripless I ordered. I got it from http://www.skidim.com and it arrived in 2 days.
Read the instructions, it says to dig out the old, cut the new and put it in staggering the seam. I headed out to the boat and located the pin and proceeded to pull it out.
Once the pin was out, I was able to unscrew the packing nut by hand. Mine was pretty loose. I am sure it could have just been tightened at this point, but I was set on swapping it. I proceeded to dig out the old packing with a thin long flat headed screwdriver. A couple of lever pulls in there and the first layer came out.
The second did the same, but I had to grab it with some needle nose to remove completely.
Here is the old packing on the new gor bag. There was only 2 layers.
I measured the packing around the shaft, and also against the old, and cut it to length. After cutting I placed it into the nut. I could only get 2 layers in, and could not get the nut started with 3......believe me I tried.....alot.....sigh......
After that, I screwed the nut back in, and double hand tightened. I have some adjustment left, and I put the pin back in. I did not get a final photo, but that was it.
OK....hope someone benefits from this.
Here is the dripless I ordered. I got it from http://www.skidim.com and it arrived in 2 days.
Read the instructions, it says to dig out the old, cut the new and put it in staggering the seam. I headed out to the boat and located the pin and proceeded to pull it out.
Once the pin was out, I was able to unscrew the packing nut by hand. Mine was pretty loose. I am sure it could have just been tightened at this point, but I was set on swapping it. I proceeded to dig out the old packing with a thin long flat headed screwdriver. A couple of lever pulls in there and the first layer came out.
The second did the same, but I had to grab it with some needle nose to remove completely.
Here is the old packing on the new gor bag. There was only 2 layers.
I measured the packing around the shaft, and also against the old, and cut it to length. After cutting I placed it into the nut. I could only get 2 layers in, and could not get the nut started with 3......believe me I tried.....alot.....sigh......
After that, I screwed the nut back in, and double hand tightened. I have some adjustment left, and I put the pin back in. I did not get a final photo, but that was it.
OK....hope someone benefits from this.
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