muldrow

i uploaded a picture of my broken flex shaft apparently it started to come apart at the top as u can see in the picture, it wont come out from the bottom near the prop shaft or at the top of the stuffing tube help needed i'll post more pictures

muldrow

here are some more pictures if they uploaded

muldrow

here is another picture of the flex shaft at the top of the stuffing tube dont know what else i could do to get this thing out of here

martno1fan

If it were me id just pull the whole tube out shaft and all!!,also in the pic it looks like an ali tube?if so id change for a brass one although i have run an ali tube in my weedy powered boat i did use a brass bushing as ali is a bit soft .
Mart

Doubledog

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Dial your camera to the flower setting. This will let you take pictures from just a few inches away and be much clearer. Or back away a little bit. Those pics are rough.
now back to the regular scheduled flex shaft.....[8D]

stuch

take the whole thing out and get a steel tube from whh.

muldrow

another problem is its a sub-surface drive so i would imagine that would only complicate things even further

martno1fan

what hull is it?

skoda450

If it is an aluminum tube then it should be swapped with brass. I suspect that the aluminum tube itself may be the cause of the failure. If it ran dry or rusted the flex will begin to cut away at the inside an eventually jam the cable causing it to break. If thats the case, you will never get the flex shaft out of it anyway. Use a hot air gun ( hair dryer) and soften the epoxy around the hull/tube joint and it will pull right out. n Good Luck.

muldrow

its the shock wave 55 original yellow one i might try the hot air thing once it pulled how wou i put another one in

martno1fan

when you pull the tube out id seal up the hole from inside with glass cloth ,fill the outside with resin and micro balloons sand smooth then make it surface drive,drill straight out of the back (transom).

muldrow

alright i'll try to soften the hull with the hot air gun as son as i can get around to it, also is it hard at all to convert it to a surface drive?