So i'm well into this outdrive swap... initially I thought the lower unit was bad. I have a good lower with a good cable in it that I was going to swap in. I also have a full upper/lower assembly with a bad cable in it that I can use if needed but i'd need to swap over the good cable
What I wanted to do was swap in the good lower since it already had the good cable on it and call it done. So I dropped the old lower. Started up the boat and checked the upper input shaft and it was spinning which to me should have confirmed that the problem was with the lower. THEN, just for the heck of it, I shifted the cables manually on the lower I just removed and it seems to shift fine now... prop spins with shaft when in gear
I shut the boat off, disconnected the battery and stuck a couple fingers into the upper input shaft (don't know if that's the right name for it but im talking about the part that the splined lower shaft slips into (in the upper assembly). Anyway the upper input shaft has a lot of play in it... I can wiggle it back and forth about an 1/8th of an inch in any direction. Should this part have any play in it at all??? To me the bearing should keep it perfectly straight, no?
Here's the video OMC800-001 - YouTube
So now i'm thinking I have a bad upper and I should use my full upper/lower assembly, but then I have to get into a cable swap which looks like a pain in the butt...
what do you guys think?
What I wanted to do was swap in the good lower since it already had the good cable on it and call it done. So I dropped the old lower. Started up the boat and checked the upper input shaft and it was spinning which to me should have confirmed that the problem was with the lower. THEN, just for the heck of it, I shifted the cables manually on the lower I just removed and it seems to shift fine now... prop spins with shaft when in gear
I shut the boat off, disconnected the battery and stuck a couple fingers into the upper input shaft (don't know if that's the right name for it but im talking about the part that the splined lower shaft slips into (in the upper assembly). Anyway the upper input shaft has a lot of play in it... I can wiggle it back and forth about an 1/8th of an inch in any direction. Should this part have any play in it at all??? To me the bearing should keep it perfectly straight, no?
Here's the video OMC800-001 - YouTube
So now i'm thinking I have a bad upper and I should use my full upper/lower assembly, but then I have to get into a cable swap which looks like a pain in the butt...
what do you guys think?
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