Looking For .125 flex cable with a shorter stub shaft length?

shoboat · Apr 12, 2015

Any Electric Guys,

Are you guys running any .125" cables with shorter

stub shaft lengths. On a used boat I just received it has

a .125" shaft log but the standard cables hit the brass tubing

coming into the strut and binds things up. I may just have a longer

strut made so there is more room forward of the strut bracket.

Standard struts are aprox. 1.5" long and I need one Aprox. 2" long?

Anyone else have this problem? Looking for a solution if possible.

This is for a 12 hydro with a small S-Bend, otherwise I would just change

it to a wire driveline.

Thanks,

Mark Sholund

231-590-3023

Daniel's Racing · Apr 12, 2015

You might be able to thread it down further then cut it off and make the stub shorter that way.

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Not sure if you are using bearings like lead teflons or something in your strut or what setup you run in the strut but if it is a slip in sleeve type then you may be able to extend the strut length by boring it one size larger and using brass 1 size up and sleeve it with the extra 1/2" added. Cut the existing stuffing tube back so it is only in the front of you brass sleeved strut about 1/2" then fill in the behind the stuffing tube to the end of you sleeve with stuffing tube for the bushing to ride in.

Kevin Krogness · Apr 12, 2015

Mark, search around on OSE they had all sorts of sizes when I was looking a couple years back. I was going to ask Tim Jones if he could get some made.

moparbarn · Apr 12, 2015

How long a stub do you need & how long overall (stub & shaft combined), Mark? I have some up in the garage, I'll dig them out tomorrow & check against what you tell me.

shoboat · Apr 12, 2015

Robin,

Thanks for checking tomorrow for me.

I am out of town today, but I will have the measurements

for you tomorrow when I get home after work.

Mark Sholund