mtfoyre
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2006
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I have 2 faults:
One is an extreme curiousity. I will take almost anything apart in the interest of learning how it works.
The second is frugality. If I can fix it myself, even if it may take a little longer, I will make an attempt.
Long story short: two weeks ago while trying to figure out why my boat stalled and wouldn't start back up last time on the water I heard a horrible grinding noise coming from the drive. I hadn't heard this before when it was out of the water.
Yesterday I decided to get brave and remove the drive from the boat. I brought it into the garage and tried to hand turn the ball gear and couldn't. I mean.....it was VERY hard to spin and the sound of friction was very apparent.
So I started to break the drive down even further. I ended up determining the issue is inside the upper gear assembly. When trying to rotate the gears it is nearly impossible to do.
"Okay," I think to myself, "must have a disintegrated bearing or chewed up gear." The horizonal gear is partially visible and looked okay.
I press on trying to remove the gears from the housing. Well, that's where I've hit a roadblock. It seems I can't get it apart any further.
I removed the four bolts on the bearing retainer (pictured above) but it wouldn't budge. I was a little fearful of using too much force. Don't want to break it, ya know.
Any tips someone can offer? If I just need to take a crowbar to it and force it out I will, but I don't know how brittle it may be after 38 years (yes, it's an ooooooold boat).
In happier news, I'm pretty certain this is what caused my problems on the lake. Since this seems to spin with the motor whether in gear or neutral the large amount of resistance it's causing could conceivably cause the motor to crank slowly or not at all.
One is an extreme curiousity. I will take almost anything apart in the interest of learning how it works.
The second is frugality. If I can fix it myself, even if it may take a little longer, I will make an attempt.
Long story short: two weeks ago while trying to figure out why my boat stalled and wouldn't start back up last time on the water I heard a horrible grinding noise coming from the drive. I hadn't heard this before when it was out of the water.
Yesterday I decided to get brave and remove the drive from the boat. I brought it into the garage and tried to hand turn the ball gear and couldn't. I mean.....it was VERY hard to spin and the sound of friction was very apparent.
So I started to break the drive down even further. I ended up determining the issue is inside the upper gear assembly. When trying to rotate the gears it is nearly impossible to do.
"Okay," I think to myself, "must have a disintegrated bearing or chewed up gear." The horizonal gear is partially visible and looked okay.
I press on trying to remove the gears from the housing. Well, that's where I've hit a roadblock. It seems I can't get it apart any further.
I removed the four bolts on the bearing retainer (pictured above) but it wouldn't budge. I was a little fearful of using too much force. Don't want to break it, ya know.
Any tips someone can offer? If I just need to take a crowbar to it and force it out I will, but I don't know how brittle it may be after 38 years (yes, it's an ooooooold boat).
In happier news, I'm pretty certain this is what caused my problems on the lake. Since this seems to spin with the motor whether in gear or neutral the large amount of resistance it's causing could conceivably cause the motor to crank slowly or not at all.
