Re: Mercruiser upper and lower seals
i stand corrected.
"i used a block of wood and a hammer to carefully tap the new one in."
that
is closer to how i did it than smashed. sorry about the shivers Don S.....
How did you remove the "castle" retaining ring?
with a aftermarket reatainer nut wrench like this...
http://www.iboats.com/Spanner-Nut-Wrench/dm/*******.998032145--**********.695371933--view_id.271181
would that seal change be fairly easy?
next level up above easy maybe... obsticals i had were the retainer wrench, a torque wrench that had 75 ft. lbs about in the middle of it's range. figuring out how to hold the double brg. assy. in a vise to put 75 ft. to the nut that holds it all together. ya gotta replace that nut and washer. it's a one time use item. figureing out how to hold the drive steady when re torquing the retainer nut back on. (layed it on the ground and had someone heavy stand on it).
i also had blue brgs. these required replacement. this required a reshimm. begged and borrowed them tools from my local dealer the kind marine techs they have there.
one other thing. the small spacer in the pic is not always present. if it's not. you don't use a straight torque value to torque down the nut on the drive gear yoke. you use rolling torque when the assy. is w/o that spacer.
here's the assy. in pieces.. (note, the yoke should be flipped end for end in the pic and placed last on the right)
the seal is second in from the right.
my drive gear yoke was bum too. so it also got replaced..
that's good, if ya were, then ya'd have to ask Don S and Bond-o how to do things proper...
mj, Don S and Bond-o have both taught me a lot. listen to them way before me..
for sure on what Don S said about using the service manual too. i used mine a lot...
still do too.....
