Today I tried to fit the out drive back on bell housing after replacing my engine with another.
The drive would not go all the way home and was an inch also from meeting with the gasket surface.
I tried to remove and reinstall the drive and number of times only to encounter the same problem .
Ithen got inside the boat and had an assistant insert and remove the alignment tool while I checked how far it was entering the engine coupler and it was only going in a cm or so
it then occurred to me thatthe alignment of the engine may be to blame for what I was experiencing .
I inserted the engine alignment tool once again and found that there were no spline witness marks at all on the end of the shaft further confirming that the tool was not being inserted fully into the coupling.
does this sound like a good reason the drive would not make the last inch or two ?
i have a pic of the show mark on the tool from the outer edge of the gimbal bearing but can’t resize it to attach on an iPhone
The drive would not go all the way home and was an inch also from meeting with the gasket surface.
I tried to remove and reinstall the drive and number of times only to encounter the same problem .
Ithen got inside the boat and had an assistant insert and remove the alignment tool while I checked how far it was entering the engine coupler and it was only going in a cm or so
it then occurred to me thatthe alignment of the engine may be to blame for what I was experiencing .
I inserted the engine alignment tool once again and found that there were no spline witness marks at all on the end of the shaft further confirming that the tool was not being inserted fully into the coupling.
does this sound like a good reason the drive would not make the last inch or two ?
i have a pic of the show mark on the tool from the outer edge of the gimbal bearing but can’t resize it to attach on an iPhone