I wouldn't even think of it being an issue, but there it was. I think I must have taken up some of the slack that's normally in speedo tube when I clipped it to the water hose, and for some reason it just wants to slowly rest against the port side now, and when you move the shifter into...
If vice grip garage guy can go out to a car that's been sitting in a field, pop the cap, file the points with his leatherman, and drive the damn thing, I don't think you need to even think about them on even a 5-year basis unless you are in salt.
First the question, let's say I want to delete on the speedometer hose is there a plug I can put in the transom assembly from inside the boat? I have a GPS speedometer and would like to just delete this whole tube.
And here is the story of a man who finished up a transom refresh, after many...
It has nothing to do with the water pressure. The teeth of the clutch dog are ramped, they are meant to ratchet in the opposite direction.
When the clutch dog is pushed into the rotating forward or reverse gear, which has a similar design, it will turn and seat until the flat parts mesh...
@Scott Danforth My exhaust flappers are still there, I pulled the rubber booties on my riser, it's still in decent shape, so I am guessing everything downpipe of it is fine.
@Chris1956 Yeah the 3.0L Iron block I am not worried about, they'll run longer with basically no compression than most...
I was winterizing my boat and the first thing on my check list was to replace the fuel filter since it's never ever been done (it needed it).
I guess on the muffs there wasn't enough water coming in, misaligned muffs, or something else, that I wasn't getting enough water to the impeller while...
Awesome, perfect information! I got it all aligned. It goes in so smooth you can barely tell it's going into the coupler except for the spline marks in the grease.
Someone put a greasable bearing into my housing before I bought the boat, but it has the plug where the zerk fitting was that...
I don't have the front mount, I have two brackets on the side of the Engine, Attached is the Diagram. Which sucks because every Video, Forum Post, Etc. I read is for the front mount that blocks your belts from being easy to replace.
I am assuming that the top bolts are loosened. My Real...
My outdrive seems fairly solid, but seeing as how the previous owner blew up an engine, and the condition of the remaining gasket material in the water pump when I did it, my guess is the previous owner believed in waiting for things to break before fixing them, so i've been doing some catchup...
Haha, yeah, I felt kinda shitty about leaving probably half a reservoir of gear lube in the Ohio River, that water is bad enough already.
My worry isn't so much toasting a 15 year old drive, I have consigned myself to it's eventual fate. It's more, I have some trips with little goober kids on...
Let's say I did the big stupid and didn't have a quad ring installed after a water pump refresh, because it fell on the garage floor while I was putting the drive back together and ran the outdrive pretty hard over the weekend with 2 hours of tubing and probably a solid 6 hours of trolling while...
Cool, now you need to replace it. It's a pretty important part. When there is no exhaust coming out of the engine that flapper shuts the exhaust tube and prevents a swell or wave from pushing water up into the engine.
Run without it, get stranded, replace at the very least the head of your...
I got mine in an alpha one drive with my wife holding a flash light, the drive all the way up and turned to the left, and then I shoved a slit of a silicon cutting board up there to protect the bellows, and used an xacto knife to cut the hose until it peeled away.
Used a heat gun on the new...
Yeah my thinking was to just remove the belt, disconnecting the cylinder from the arm may help as well, I just don't want to completely knacker the steering actuator running it without power steering fluid in it, to avoid corrosion etc.
My options are to yank it out and try to have a hydraulic...
It's a 3.0L TKS from 2009, it's a gen 2 alpha one. It doesn't need power steering at all in my opinion, and I know that it doesn't because my power steering system leaks a quart of fluid an hour, so most of the time it gets used without power steering apparently.
Is it safe to run...
