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I'm working through the list of issues with this motor and it wouldn't stay in forward gear when I tried to take it out today. I disassembled the lower unit and there is definitely some wear on the clutch dog and gears.
Is the wear in the pics enough to not let it stay in forward gear above...
I’m really stumped. I have been working on a boat with a 1968 33hp Johnson. The only issue I have left is that I can’t get the motor to turn off with the key. I went straight to the source and tried completing the circuit of the two black wires to ground it out, but that didn’t work either. The...