Prop Shaft

[gn7]

X2
I had this same problem of not enough room for a collar with a project boat I worked on. If you have a rubber hose connecting seal housing to log you can cut hose shorter and butt seal housing right up to log. Mine needed even more room and I faced the seal housing down shorting the housing. I could only use one clamp on that side but used a good T bolt clamp and it held fine.

When I first built the GN, they had just passed a rule that you had to have a split 2 bolt steel safety collar in front of the log, as well as a safety collar in front of the strut. Personally I think the one in front of the log is near useless because the majority of the logs are not much more than glued to the floor. There is no stress on them, and they are just basically sitting on the floor held by bolts tapped into fiberglass. But everything helps.

I had about a 1/4" between the coupler and the shaft seal using a rope type seal. I got the log set DEAD NUTS to the shaft angle, shortened the hose to the minimum, slightly trim the face of the log, and replaced the rope seal with the single grease, trimmed the face of it slightly, and now there is 2 split collars with about a 1/8" between the seal and coupler ends.

Not only is the front side of the double seal longer, but look at the hose side!!