I need Shockwave 26 help

[Maggster]

I know the vid stinks. I have 2 more that are just about as bad. I am uploading one now. I am still on dialup for another week and a half.
My wife was the only one around who could go to the lake with me. She has never run the boat or the camera before tonight. She tried, which is cool, but she was so afraid of running the boat out of range or into the weeds that I couldn't get her to go straight very long at all. I am not much of a camera man either apparently. What I though was going to be the best vid, I must not have saved right.

All I can tell you about the shaft is that a 4mm prop threads onto it. It was like you see it when I got it.

So if I understand right, I should pull the stuffing tube out that is there now, and cut that little area where the tube comes out right off, and then drill a new hole so the stuffing tube comes out of the transom basically right at where the hull meets the transom. Does that sound like a good idea?

[saleens7]

yes.......

[Maggster]

OK. Thanks. Any thing in particular that I need to be extra careful about before I start?

[saleens7]

not to break the stuffing tube....i did when i was trying to take it out of my high wind hull and i ended up breaking it....so o used a brass pipe cutter to get what i could from it and when trying to get the shaft through it, it snagged and i bent it....so i ended up with a broken stuffing tube and bent shaft....so BE VERY CAREFUL!!!!!!!! you might also want to try to find some scrap ABS to repair the hole that will be left when you cutout the sutffing tube thing that the old shaft used to come out of....you could seal it up w. epoxy....you can put tape on the inner side of the hull and pour the epoxy on the other side and just sand it out on the bottom....youll also want to add a second layer of epoxy on the inside of the hull to add extra strength to the hull....

EDIT: youll probably have to leave the tape in there as the epoxy may stick to it...

[Maggster]

OK thanks for the tips. I think I'll try to get started on that this weekend.

Here are the other 2 short vids, maybe someone will see something significant. Sorry they aren't better. I am struggling with the whole video thing. I don't have any way to edit it either.:rolleyes:
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#3

Thanks for all the help.

[saleens7]

yeah, it does seem to want to rud up on the nose quite a bit.....here are some cids of my SW26 (in some of them its faster as i installed a laerger motor and prop) you can compare how my hull rides using the stock outdrive to how your hull rides w/ the strait shaft

http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k87/saleens7_01/?action=view&current=MOV00003.flv

http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k87/saleens7_01/?action=view&current=MOV00002.flv

(thanks again piranha2 for the SW26....)

[Maggster]

It sure looks to me like yours rides with the nose higher. I have cut the bottom of the hull off where the tube used to come out (what is that called anyway). I just need to epoxy that and then put the new tube in.

Another question. I don't see anything in this driveline to take the thrust up to the motor/coupler joint. Is that OK?

[saleens7]

It sure looks to me like yours rides with the nose higher. I have cut the bottom of the hull off where the tube used to come out (what is that called anyway). I just need to epoxy that and then put the new tube in.

Another question. I don't see anything in this driveline to take the thrust up to the motor/coupler joint. Is that OK?

im not quite understanding your question.....what do you mean as thrust up to the motor/coupler?

[Flying Scotsman]

im not quite understanding your question.....what do you mean as thrust up to the motor/coupler?

He is asking about this item Product ID: dh-53136
5mm Thrust Bearing Details

This bearing will reduce motor heat by removing the pressure from the rear motor housing bearing in a brushed or brushless motor.

This will fit most motors with a 5mm output shaft, including the Feigao, Nemesis, AquaCraft SuperVee and 700 motors with 5mm shafts.
Price: $6.69

This is from the OSE site

Doug

[Maggster]

Actually there isn't one of those on my boat. The prop threads to the shaft, the shaft hooks to the coupler, the coupler hooks to the motor. Thats it. Is the motor designed to take the thrust?

I looked at the strudder and it looks like the white plastic washer is designed to take the thrust there, but mine doesn't have that.

[saleens7]

oh, you mean that....yes, you should get a thrust bearing....

[saleens7]

but he doesent need a 5mm thrust bearing. he needs a 1/8" one....

[Maggster]

OK, here is an update with where it is right now. I pulled the thrust washer out of the strudder and put it between the coupler and the motor. Hopefully that will do the trick for now. Here are a few pics.

[saleens7]

looks alot better now....the water pickup on the rudder should work better also as its designed to be a prop wash type pickup...

[Maggster]

I hope to test it tomorrow after church. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks so much for the help.