smiles16
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2016
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- 186
Well fellas I knew when I bought my new to me '86 Ebbtide that it had possible ujoint/gimbal issues. Was optimistic thinking it'd be the leaky power steering pump making noise, but I was wrong and y'all were right....again. So, this is an alpha one gen 1 connected to a 230lx. I pulled the drive today and found water in the bellows. The bellows look great and luckily the splines and inner transom side of the driveshaft are rust free. There was no trace of gear oil in the bellows and the oil drained out green. The ujoints and gimbal are rusted and toast though. The kicker is, I found the large oring that goes around the spanner nut laying in pieces at the bottom of the ujoint bellow. I also noticed the water inlet oring fell off as soon as I pulled back on the outdrive. There was quite a bit of silicone caked in the water inlet oring seat as well. Could this be the source of the water??? I also am curious about the ujoint movement as well. I noticed while I was inspecting that I am able to make the ujoint contact the spanner nut. There is no damage or signs of contact with the nut that I can see, just noticed that I can make contact. Is that normal?