I recently acquired a 1989 Renken 1700 Classic bowrider with a ford 2.3 and OMC Cobra outdrive for a couple hundred bucks. Motor runs fine after doing a tune up, but I have a knocking/grinding noise that seems to be coming from the outdrive when accelerating but once I plane out it stops, it also recently started randomly losing power when turning or under strain from wind or waves. My coworker said it's likely the gimbal bearing and to grease it. The shift cable is very hard to shift down to neutral from drive, which I read online may have something to do with the noise? How screwed am I? :faint2:
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