Re: 1950 – 1953 Fleetwin Prop Shaft Seals

[Buccaneer]

Thanks for the replies.
Kirk, are you suggesting using an O-ring instead of a regular seal?
Even if you made a retainer for an O-ring, I wonder how effective
it would be keeping water out of the gear case?

Mumbles & Phil,
Yes, I noticed all the .594 shaft size seals are over one inch OD.
Pretty sure there’s not enough meat to bore the OD in the cap that much.
I had not seen the seal Phil mentions with the .591 shaft size and .829 OD.
These seals "might" work if I did as Mumbles suggest, and made a .024 wall sleeve
to make up the difference in OD? Those seals are very thin, but perhaps they could
be doubled up.
Any tips on making a sleeve that thin? I have an old lathe, but
not sure on my machining skills making something that thin!

Thanks for the ideas!

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