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I'm not sure why you ask but as long as there is no direct contact you should be good to go.

FullHouse you need enough space between the back end of the strud and the hub of the prop to be able to get the jaws of a prop puller in there for prop removal.

FullHouse,
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On my 1977 26' from this picture you can probably estimate the shaft length. The strut is 4" long; where the cutless bearing is. In this picture I was pressing out the old bearing with my home-made bearing puller. I have another picture with the prop still on, before I began, if that would help.

Great job on the strut puller, a little less money than one from Strut Pro. I bought the Strut Pro by rationalizing that the yard labor cost to do my 4 bearings would equal or exceed the cost of the tool. Then I am ready to go again in the future. The tool made things so easy it should be illegal.

Yeah, the Strut Pro tool was the inspiration for this one. No way I wanted to spend $700 for the tool. Some angle iron, threaded rod and pipe fittings and I got something similar. Worked great; popped that old cutless bearing right out with no sweat.

I only bought the tool with the colletts for my shaft and bearings which saved a few hundred, still it hurt. Great tool though.

another way to solve the issue is to know that the prop 9if its the original 14-10pitch with cup on the one inch shaft before a1 1/4 " rudder post, is to know that the aft most section of he pop sits 4 to 5 " away from that rudder post

I don't know how much distance is the minimum. I suppose about 1/4" or so. I do know there is a rule of thumb regarding the maximum...it shouldn't be more than about the shaft diameter. So for a 1" shaft there shouldn't be more than about 1" of shaft between the strut and the propeller.

Kind regards,

JoeBobb