Reply To: 9.5hp plastic ring between prop and gearcase

[wek]

I had first hand experience that monofilament can fuse into what looks like a perfect ring. My own green monofilament got caught up in the prop and when I checked it later, a green perfect ring, without any loose strands sticking out as in the above pictures, was on the prop shaft behind the prop.

Coincidently it was on a 1966 Evinrude 9.5