But did not get to work on it a lot over the weekend either. I went and bought some lights for the trailer and installed them so if I do have to take it somewhere I can legally and not have to worry about tickets. In the meantime I did manage to cut the boot off of the driveline. As you can see from the pics it is looking like choc milk so I am taking it that there is/was water in the oil there. I was also told I could not access the gimble bearing. Once the boot was out of the way I could see the gimble bearing and poked and proded around and found the snap-ring. The snap-ring has now been removed, by this time it was getting late and had to go to work today. I have been spraying penetraiting oil on the bearing every chance I got though and will do so until I can work on this coming weekend. Hope that this is going to help with the removal as well.
If it was stuck in the coupler would it at least try to come out a little ways? It almost seems that the outdrive it glued to the gimble ring or whatever it is called on the back of the boat. Talk about frustration man, am starting to wonder how much a drive shaft would be from the ujoint to the coupler and just take a torch to the old one and cut it off. Just not sure what to do anymore dangit. Starting to wonder if I should just sell it for what I have into it Just dont know.
