Re: Outdrive Not Spinning
sounds like ya for sure need a service manual....
http://www.boatfix.com/merc/Servmanl/srvcovr.pdf you'll want #6...
Is there a way to correct this?
pull the drive again. one of these two shift shafts are the ones that will be bent..
the one with the female shoe is in the bell housing, the one with the male shoe is in the upper. replace the bent one. or both...
in the pic. it's in neutral. you can see that if you were to try and slide the drive rearward to remove it. the coupler wouldn't let them separate. one or both would bend if ya forced the drive off. when the drive is in fwd. this coupler is facing fore and aft. allowing the shoes to slide and separate..
bd has a good point. i'm assuming (i know, i know) the shift pin is the two shafts coupled. or one or the other. any way ya look at it though. bond-o is correct too. basically when removing any part of the drive on an alpha1, ya put everything in fwd to get it disassembled or assembled correctly....