Bravo 1 Prop shaft retainer

[mr300z87]

Hi all, I hope the forum is getting more stable as they fix the bugs! Anyway I am working on a 1990 vintage bravo 1, it is off my Sea Ray project. It has about 800 hour on it, what I think to be a bad bearing in the propshaft and is a corroded mess :faint2:. So I have decided to use it as a learning tool and take it apart. The top half was easy!! Yesterday I made an attempt to remove the prop shaft retainer. I used the recommended tool with a breaker bar and could not get it to budge. It had been sprayed with PB blaster. Remember corroded mess ^^. I think I reading somewhere about drilling 3 hole in the retainer then chiseling it out. Any other recommendations? I have no intentions of trying to repair this drive but I do not want to destroy any usable internals. All thought the gears and bearings look OK the thurst washer show wear as does the seal surface on the yoke. I am totally intrigued by these drive so I am enjoying the dis-assembly process. All Have a great weekend

 

[alldodge]

Hi all, I hope the forum is getting more stable as they fix the bugs! Anyway I am working on a 1990 vintage bravo 1, it is off my Sea Ray project. It has about 800 hour on it, what I think to be a bad bearing in the propshaft and is a corroded mess :faint2:. So I have decided to use it as a learning tool and take it apart. The top half was easy!! Yesterday I made an attempt to remove the prop shaft retainer. I used the recommended tool with a breaker bar and could not get it to budge. It had been sprayed with PB blaster. Remember corroded mess ^^. I think I reading somewhere about drilling 3 hole in the retainer then chiseling it out. Any other recommendations? I have no intentions of trying to repair this drive but I do not want to destroy any usable internals. All thought the gears and bearings look OK the thurst washer show wear as does the seal surface on the yoke. I am totally intrigued by these drive so I am enjoying the dis-assembly process. All Have a great weekend

You are turning the retaining nut clockwise correct, due to left handed threads?

 

[mr300z87]

Thanks for the thought there Alldodge as I then questioned it myself. I am wrenching the way the arrow points off on the retainer. Just tried again and had no luck it is frozen on there solid. I am going to soak it down again with some PB blaster. It might help if I had someone to hold the drive steady. If that doesn't work will get the drill out, I got nothing to loose

 

[alldodge]

Thanks for the thought there Alldodge as I then questioned it myself. I am wrenching the way the arrow points off on the retainer. Just tried again and had no luck it is frozen on there solid. I am going to soak it down again with some PB blaster. It might help if I had someone to hold the drive steady. If that doesn't work will get the drill out, I got nothing to loose

Hope it comes loose, and since your not going to save the housing, maybe a die grinder and cut through the side and real slow near the threads