Hi "achris" and Gents. I came across some of your posts while searching for help. You all seem very experienced so am reaching out to you directly.
I am helping a buddy out with his boat. He has a MC-1 drive. I would have called it a Pre-alpha from al the posts I saw.....until I ran across the achis rant and educational 2013 post. Cracked me up....Now to my issue. The story goes back to us hitting rock pile some time back on the Detroit river. Damaged the coupling. I installed a new one putting the engine back in the same position as before, but didn't do an alignment. It lasted about two hours. So now I pulled the engine again and am removing the drive so I can align. Problem is I can not get the drive off. I removed the six nuts and pulled straight back. It moved about 1.5" and is stopped dead. I can not get it to move any more. Can you help please? Am I missing something? I am following a Mercruiser manual.
On a more serious note. Yesterday while I was in the boat and my buddy was moving the drive around to see if we could get it out further I noted a lot of movement out of the transom plate. The engineer in me thinks this can't be right. I would think things should be rock solid back there. Your thoughts? I will check back to the posts. Thanks for anything you can provide.
I am helping a buddy out with his boat. He has a MC-1 drive. I would have called it a Pre-alpha from al the posts I saw.....until I ran across the achis rant and educational 2013 post. Cracked me up....Now to my issue. The story goes back to us hitting rock pile some time back on the Detroit river. Damaged the coupling. I installed a new one putting the engine back in the same position as before, but didn't do an alignment. It lasted about two hours. So now I pulled the engine again and am removing the drive so I can align. Problem is I can not get the drive off. I removed the six nuts and pulled straight back. It moved about 1.5" and is stopped dead. I can not get it to move any more. Can you help please? Am I missing something? I am following a Mercruiser manual.
On a more serious note. Yesterday while I was in the boat and my buddy was moving the drive around to see if we could get it out further I noted a lot of movement out of the transom plate. The engineer in me thinks this can't be right. I would think things should be rock solid back there. Your thoughts? I will check back to the posts. Thanks for anything you can provide.