Hi Danny,

Those grease caps are pretty handy when using flax packing... if it wasn't set just right you could turn the grease cup and stop a drip without using wrenches before leaving the boat. (Really important if boat on a mooring for awhile)

Your new packing likes a bit of exposure to water. I suggest packing the grease cup but don't tighten it much.

Why is your gland locknut away from the gland nut? It should be tight against the gland nut to prevent the gland coming apart and unloading your fresh packing rings into the bilge... then you have a leak!

        Cheers, Russ
        Sweet 35 mk-1
east Vancouver Isd

At 10:32 AM 24/07/2012, you wrote:
crap!

http://sdrv.ms/QhtwPF

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com>
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List Stuffing box grease fitting
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:27:18 -0400

Danny,

No photo!

Joel

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:22 PM, <mailto:djhaug...@juno.com>djhaug...@juno.com <<mailto:djhaug...@juno.com>djhaug...@juno.com> wrote:
Hello Again,

I'm ever nearing a launch my friends, and am in a bit of dis-belief!

Anyway, today's question is;

Given my stuffing box has a grease cap type grease fitting and I repacked using Graphtex Ultra shaft packing, do I...;
a. need to grease the fitting?
b. if so, do I just stuff some white lithium marine grease into it as best I can and then fill the cap with it and screw it together?

Here is a link to a pic of the stuffing box (before I pulled the engine, painted the compartment and installed the moyer)

Thanks
Danny



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