Bill, I can't picture why there is inadequate room to lock wire the screws. When you say perpendicular to the coupler I can't picture if that is perpendicular to the shaft or inline with the shaft. I think you're describing inline with the shaft which makes me wonder why using a cotter pin wouldn't work?
Either way, lock wire should normally be routed in a figure 8 such that loosening of either or both of the bolts will result in the tightening of the wire. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Jun 11, 2017 4:31 PM, "William Walker via CnC-List" < [email protected]> wrote: > All, > I replaced prop shaft and coupler this spring. Shaft is seated in > coupler and two square head, drilled, cup pointed bolts go into dimples in > shaft..i know that proper technique is to properly safety wire the bolts > through drilled heads so can't come loose. But, when seated the drilled > holes in bolt heads are perpendicular to coupler and there is absolutely no > room to properly safety wire these.. > I could remove bolts, drill opposite faces of bolt, reinstall and safety > wire, BUT, I was thinking of getting proper size cup head set screws > instead and stacking two in the coupler to lock them instead. > Thoughts.. > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > _______________________________________________ > > This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you > wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All Contributions are greatly appreciated! > >
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