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Drive System Maintenance and Repair

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How to keep your engine, shaft, and propeller in good shape

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The following is a brief overview of an area of your boat that is often neglected, and extremely expensive to repair.  This is written as a repair/inspect project, most easily done hauled out but possible in the water. If you are going to repower your boat, click here for our article covering that project.

Click on the area of the drive system you want to explore. We recommend you start at the propeller and read through if you are here for the first time.

Coupler and Drive Savers Shaft Coupler and Drive Savers Stern Tube and Stuffing Box Strut and Cutlass Bearing Propeller Alignment You can also click each link below to jump to a section, but we recommend you start at the propeller and work your way through:

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