HELP, shipping damage on strut

[Comfortably Numb]

I bought a used SV27 off eBay. When UPS delivered it , it had been droped hard. I tore it all down fixed the big hole in the sturn but the stufing tub and the strut came out in one pice. and from what I have been seeing in the forms these should come apart. I ran it for a second or two and it makes a loud rub noise. so I think it is bent some place I can't see. how dose all this come apart? I know somthing has to be bent. even the motor was knocked out of aliment. Can enyone help me? I mean when you stop laughing at me!!!!

[rockwerks]

I bought a used SV27 off eBay. When UPS delivered it , it had been droped hard. I tore it all down fixed the big hole in the sturn but the stufing tub and the strut came out in one pice. and from what I have been seeing in the forms these should come apart. I ran it for a second or two and it makes a loud rub noise. so I think it is bent some place I can't see. how dose all this come apart? I know somthing has to be bent. even the motor was knocked out of aliment. Can enyone help me? I mean when you stop laughing at me!!!!

pictures are worth a thousand words...........kinda hard to diagnose when we cant see it

[ghostofpf1]

Mine came with both stringers broken from the weight of the motor so I'm not gonna laugh at you...
Take the radio box out or at least disco stuff enough that you can move it out of the way and check the stuffing tube supports.I'll bet they and your stuffing tube are broken loose and misaligned to the motor output shaft causing the rubbing you're hearing.
HTH
Ghost

[Mich. Maniac]

Thats kinda tough. Both finding a broken boat and the rubbing problem. With motor out of the picture does it rub spinning it by hand? If so then yes your problem is in the tube. Perhaps the stuff tube got shoved too far into strut and prop shaft is rubbing on the bend now. If you are able to get the tube out again I would twist it out of the strut, get a new piece of tube and local hobby store, bend it and align it so you know its right, then go from there. If is sounds good spinning freely and when motor is hooked up it rubs "sounds like" then maybe a bearing got bound outta whack. Tough break but if you can diagnose one piece at a time with some patience you'll be out running again smooth and fast!

[Comfortably Numb]

How far up the strut is the tube to go?

[Mich. Maniac]

How far up the strut is the tube to go?

Well, If your bushing is in then the bushing should be pretty close to flush with end of strut. Try one more thing. Pull shaft and fles cable out about 1/8 to 1/4 inch out and spin and see how it sounds.

[Comfortably Numb]

pic.s

this is all stuck together as if it was one pice. The pic of the motor is how it was when i got it. I moved every thing so it would line up and it still sounds like it drags.

[kck741]

you need a new strut and stuffing tube

[Boatman]

struts arent very expensive but if you can get the tube and bushing out I can send you both for free. If you can even try a small bit of heat "in a grill or oven even" the try spinning brass out without kinking it. Theres gotta be a way. Try tapping it back out with 1/4" drill shaft... I hate to see ya lose the strut just cause brass.

[rickplt]

Looks like the guy who sold it or whomever he got it from, was a butcher.....
I would try to drill out the strut and make my own bushing out of brass tube. The stuffing tube is just a piece of K&S 1/4 inch brass tubing. Easy and cheap fix. Look carefully at the condition of the flex cable.

[Comfortably Numb]

cut tube out

So Boatman you are saying to have it look like this. the bushing is mest up but I put it back for refance. the brass liner that is in the strut is 1/4" shorter than the strut. but when I was cutting the stuffing tube out it looked like it was one solid tube from the motor to the prop. Is this cerrect?

[Boatman]

You got it man. Yea your strut is scratched a bit but nothing is wrong other than astetics. Your only worry is the inside, being it is still a good fit with the bushing, or a new one. Now just bend you up a new piece of brass and leave it a little long on the strut end cut to length once you are sure its in-line and all you need is a new bushing if that one is unusable. Your gonna wanna leave a small gap between drive dog and end of strut anyway so those scratches wont be a deal.

[Comfortably Numb]

Thanks all!!!!!
Now just need a bushing ,and put it back together.
Thanks Again!

[Comfortably Numb]

back together

so you would have it all line up with the smallest amount of bend. now do I want to epoxy the stuffing tube in or do I want to use somthing like shogoo that will let it flex a small amount? and the old one was only glued at the stern, the front mount was loos. and finly will Pam make it go faster???????????

[SweetAccord]

Two things, on the spacing at the prop, about 4-5MM is good. Question, on that 3rd picture, what is all that black stuff?? Looks like there was a fire in there? The drive shaft is off a bit. Should be pretty straight.