Quote Originally Posted by gn7 View Post
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!!

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Ha yeah, tapped fiberglass. That same project boat had the log attached like that with blind holes tapped into glass, half of which were stripped. Sitting still in the water it was fine but once you started driving it would leak like a sieve. I through drilled it and countersunk the bottom side of the boat, sealed it up and put in some appropriate ss hardware.