<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23495"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23495"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23500">Factory position, lip out, both of them.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23496"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23505" style="display: block;">  <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23504"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23503"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23502"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23501"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Minn Kota 101 parts<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23507"><br><div id="yiv9154450229"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23506">Jon ,<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23508">Witch way did you orient them</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23509">Hank<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv9154450229AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div class="yiv9154450229yqt3811264567" id="yiv9154450229yqt42928"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23510"><br clear="none">On Aug 14, 2018, at 7:57 AM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_23511">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680">FYI, I ordered new seals and a brass bushing direct from Minn Kota which turned out to be the best pricing for the items that I could find on the Internet.</div><div id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680">A while back we had a discussion about the two seals on Minn Kota's...are both necessary, what about the space between them and pressure considerations, etc, etc, etc.  In my case, I considered installing just one seal but chickened out and installed both.  I'm convinced the purpose of two seals is simply to back each other up in case one fails.  I had lost the cardboard spacer that separates the two seals, so after installing the first one I packed the void within it (it's a lip seal) with grease and then just pushed the second one directly beside the first with no spacer.  </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680">The seals are numbered 21 in the attached diagram.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9154450229yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534254315208_2680">Jon</div></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><101seals.JPG></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="yqt3811264567" id="yqt80724">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" 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