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Water Walker (power shift) hardware

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curdog

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I have been adjusting my pitch on my prop and figured I run it awhile to see if I liked it. I didn't bother sealing the hub, I figured If i liked the setting I would get around to it. Finally decided that it was too much pitch so I went to change it again, well guess what. Bolts holding the hub together was seized up. After two hours and half a can of PB blaster I got the bolts out. But I buggered up one of the nuts. Grade 8 fine thread nuts that size are not something I can pick up at Home Depot. Northern does not have them either. I hate to have one shipped from Colorado but if I have too.

Does any one happen to have an extra nut laying around? I'll buy it and pay shipping of course. Thanks for the help all.
 
You should have a Fastenal near you Matt. They have all kinds of fasteners. You might have to buy a bag of them, though.

Or when you go to NAPA for your thermostat, ask them about nuts too. If they don't have them in stock, they should be able to order a box in overnight and sell you a few.

When you get some extra cash, you might want to look at getting a new hub. They make them now with pressed-in inserts so you only need one wrench. Or Water Walker or Sensenich may be able to machine your hub and press in the inserts, not sure. Ask Bob Hoover, AKA Swampjet
 
Curdog, grade 8 is grade 8. If you have an Ace hardware (like hogenstein said) in your area, and they have the sizes you need their stuff will be fine too.

olf
 
Curdog, WaterWalker uses a 9/16ths bolt instead of a 1/2 inch like the other prop makers use. WaterWalker also uses grade 8 instead of grade 9. Grade 9 is harder but won't handle vibration and stretch as well as 8. Hope this helps, But if you cant find them locally give me a call. My number is on the WaterWalker website.
 
Action Bolt And Tool Co.
6431 Arc Way
Ft. Myers, FL 33912 USA

Phone: 941-939-2028

I know the one in Bradenton has hard to find fasteners.
9/16 hardened fine thread is hard to find.
If you deal with the Caterpillar dist in your area they have
a hardware catalog that's pretty good also and they will sell you
one or two and not the whole box. Pm me if you need some help.
 
If you need to get out of a bind (or home from the swamp), I found out the lug nuts on my trailer are 1/2 inch and fine thread.
A friend had broken a bolt from his motor mount and lost the nut somewhere along the way, I had a couple of extra prop bolts ( 1/2" X 4 1/2" Grade 8 ) and took the lug nut from my trailer and we were good to go.
 
4fun, that's a great post. I would have never thought of that .... 8) .

The only thing that is real important in a high tension application (besides the grade of the hardware) is to stay with fine thread. A course thread might get you home in an emergency, but replace it as soon as you can.
A fine thread has a lot more thread surface than a coarse thread of the same size, which means that it also has a lot more holding power.
Because the pitch of the threads is also less, it would have to loosen farther than a comparable coarse thread to start turning loose.

olf
 
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