I'm helping on my new best friends 2000, 42 Post. Rudder post are seeping. I remember somebody working on these before but my search skills are not working well rite now. How did these work again? Serviced how? Can somebody point me to that old thread? Thx
So Beau may be on to other venues. Anybody else have any insight to servicing these rudder post seals?
You may want to call Wharton Creek to see if they can look it up for you. I assume they still have all the drawings. I've never seen a seal like that and the Tides website doesn't show that particular seal.
It looks like a Tides to me. I had one fail on the 110 last summer. The top part screws in for some reason it back itself out. We replaced both sides and added set screws. ours had serial numbers and we were able to look them up on the tides website to order the parts
I found them in the web site. Looks like I need to measure the shaft and get the numbers off of the old seal. Further,, looks like the rudders have to come down also. Looks like a spare kit is available like on propeller shafts. In the back of my head I keep thinking; If I designed this stuff, I would have made the hull/tube assembly's top above the water line, then a seal on top, so green water would not constantly be trying to leak in.
Yeah it s not a great design. In our case it letting in quite a bit of water in, enough for a 2000 gph pump to cycle every 3 minutes plus access was terrible. We had to enlarge the hatches in the jet ski garages to get to them.
My note; The above photos were also included. Good day Can you help us identify the required parts and instructions on servicing our rudder post seals? Thank you for your time and thoughts Ralph Worton Creek responded this morning; Ralph, When the boats were built, they used Tides marine rudder seals. If is not tides then im not exactly sure sure what kind it is. Patrick
This is from the build sheet of my 2006 50' if it helps in any way. Gotta love the pricing back then!
This is real cool. Gives me a better idea of the assembly. Thank you for contributing to my education. Post kids are cool !!