So I have a few of the older
bronze style seacocks that are all frozen. They look like this:
Hope I did that correctly ^^
Anyway, I tried a little muscle, penetrating
oil, and some light to moderate banging with a rubber mallet. All very good suggestions I snagged from other posts here on the
forums. None of these worked.
I got some
advice from my local
marine store to use a pulley puller. After a little reluctancy I removed the nuts/washers, applied a little pressure to the pulley puller and BAM, the seacock came free. WOOHOO!
I used some lapping compound and some sandpaper and cleaned the valve and
parts all up and used some white
lithium grease to reassemble the seacock.
Here is the question/issues (btw
boat is on the hard)
1.) What are the chances that these will leak?
2.) The valve is held in place with a washer and two nuts. The first nut is the tension nut, the second is a lock nut. How tight is too tight for the first nut? If I tighten it all the way down the valve doesn't turn at all.
Any constructive suggestions/comments are helpful and appreciated.
Thanks.