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Originally Posted by Skip
Damn - that sounds like a bear of a job. Braver then me - using heat around the seals. Glad prop came off.
FWIW: My dad has always been big on preventive maintenance.
He taught me to pull the prop (s) 1-2 times a season. It was good because a few times we found some fishing line - not ours - perhaps picked up near the dock.
Big tip was using a light coating of marine grease. We could literally pull the prop off by hand.
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Either I had read that, or the people at Fairwinds suggested that to me when I bought a new prop a few years ago so I bought a tube of marine grease at the same time. So far I haven't had any issues with getting the prop off to check for line and stuff, but I don't leave my boat in the water either so it gets a good cleaning the minute I get home with it everytime.