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    Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak

    Re: Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak Just in case others are following this thread and might benefit from the information, I wanted to follow up with what I ended up doing. I wasn't able to separate the steering spindle from the steering fork on my SX-MHP gimbal housing so I started...
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    Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak

    Re: Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak Quick update. I was able to easily remove the nylon steering bearing from the upper steering cavity using a "press" I found of identical diameter. I used this same "press" to install a new bearing. I noticed quite a bit of scoring on the...
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    Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak

    Re: Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak Unfortunately, the gimbal cover gasket and those ridiculously expensive foam rings were all in tact and no evidence of leakage. It's tough to tell from a still photo, but this was taken while the boat was in the water, and I could actually see...
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    Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak

    Re: Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak I'm reinstalling the starboard gimbal ring and pivot housing, with the new steering fork o-ring (that was causing the leak in the first place). I realized that the original steering bearing is still installed in the gimbal housing, and it appears...
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    SX-MHP gimbal housing removal without removing engine?

    The saga continues. I removed entire drive assemblies down to the gimbal housings on my twin 2003 VP 5.7GXi DP-SM. I did this to access the steering spindle arms and associated bearings and o-rings which were both leaking water into the engine compartment. One spindle arm came off without a...
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    Volvo Penta Upper Steering Pivot Seal Leak

    I have twin VP 5.7GXiD DuoProp sterndrive setup in a 2003 Doral 330SE (Elegante). The upper steering pivot seals leak on both engines at the rate of approximately one drop every two seconds (the water leaks around the seal, flows forward on the housing, then back aft and down, and finally comes...
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