Glassport from Newport
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- Mar 31, 2009
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Just wanted an opinion on a noise my 1991 Bayliner is making. It has a Mercrusier 3.0 (sn D610831) with an Alpha one drive (snod559854).
Ther seems to be a noise comming from the engine compartment that almost sounds like a rattle (sort of like a cardboard box with rocks being shaken). My gues is that it's probably the gimble bearing. The previous owner said that the bellows were replaced last year when he bought the bought (due to leaking u joint bellows) but didn't know what all was replaced.
My question is, is this something that will slowly get worse, or fail all of a sudden. I'd like to get through at least the next month or two before replacing.
What will happen if the gimble bearing fails? What are signs that will tell me it's failing or has failed? I haven't taken the boat out for a ride yet, I will very soon. These nosies are happening at idle in the driveway (with muffs) in nuetral.
Is this a difficult fix? I've done a lot of work on my Glassport, but paid someone else to do the transom rebuild (it looked like everything was pretty corroded and hard to remove)
Thanks for any advice!
Ther seems to be a noise comming from the engine compartment that almost sounds like a rattle (sort of like a cardboard box with rocks being shaken). My gues is that it's probably the gimble bearing. The previous owner said that the bellows were replaced last year when he bought the bought (due to leaking u joint bellows) but didn't know what all was replaced.
My question is, is this something that will slowly get worse, or fail all of a sudden. I'd like to get through at least the next month or two before replacing.
What will happen if the gimble bearing fails? What are signs that will tell me it's failing or has failed? I haven't taken the boat out for a ride yet, I will very soon. These nosies are happening at idle in the driveway (with muffs) in nuetral.
Is this a difficult fix? I've done a lot of work on my Glassport, but paid someone else to do the transom rebuild (it looked like everything was pretty corroded and hard to remove)
Thanks for any advice!