I'm replacing the water pump from motor. Th boat was purchased by my father a few years ago, and he performed little to no maintenance on it. He has given the boat to me, account he physically can't get around any longer.
The motor started having a couple of issues, and I felt the bass tracker probably needed a lot of maintenance done on it. I replaced the gear oil, it was pretty clean. But started reading about how often the water pump needed to be changed. It was due. The impeller was stuff, starting to fail, but hasn't yet. It was still pumping water, but it just looked a little slow.
I got the lower apart, discovered some fine sand inside hard to get to areas. Purchased a water pump kit from "a professional fishing store" and hence, that created a couple of questions:
The kit came with the impeller, 2 orange "o rings" a smaller orange ring. It also came with 2 yellow rings, for the gear oil screws. It came with a new restricted plate, of sorts, 2 gaskets and 2 black plastic boots. One is a tool used to help seat the other black plastic "boot" to the top of the metal housing for the impeller. There wasn't any on it, when I took it apart.
But I'm at a loss about the 3 orange rings. I didn't see any when I took the lower unit off do the motor. The plate that separates the bearings, connected to the drive shaft, didn't have a seal in the kit. So, I assume that your not to mess with the bearings, where the shaft enters the lower unit.
What's the little orange ring for?
The old impeller in the picture, is that backwards or is that correct?
Thank you!
The motor started having a couple of issues, and I felt the bass tracker probably needed a lot of maintenance done on it. I replaced the gear oil, it was pretty clean. But started reading about how often the water pump needed to be changed. It was due. The impeller was stuff, starting to fail, but hasn't yet. It was still pumping water, but it just looked a little slow.
I got the lower apart, discovered some fine sand inside hard to get to areas. Purchased a water pump kit from "a professional fishing store" and hence, that created a couple of questions:
The kit came with the impeller, 2 orange "o rings" a smaller orange ring. It also came with 2 yellow rings, for the gear oil screws. It came with a new restricted plate, of sorts, 2 gaskets and 2 black plastic boots. One is a tool used to help seat the other black plastic "boot" to the top of the metal housing for the impeller. There wasn't any on it, when I took it apart.
But I'm at a loss about the 3 orange rings. I didn't see any when I took the lower unit off do the motor. The plate that separates the bearings, connected to the drive shaft, didn't have a seal in the kit. So, I assume that your not to mess with the bearings, where the shaft enters the lower unit.
What's the little orange ring for?
The old impeller in the picture, is that backwards or is that correct?
Thank you!
