Looks normal to me. The part that you think looks overheated is not in
contact with anything. You do need to do a minor alignment. The shaft needs
to go in all the way with very little force.
JIMinFL
"John Chaplain" wrote in message
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I pulled my outdrive to check the alignment.
(2002 Mercruiser Alpha One outdrive.)
I've never done this before but I'm a machininst and a half assed
mechanic, so I think I can handle it.
My first question is....in the picture you can see that it looks like
the shaft has taken some heat judging by the coloration of the shaft.
http://home.comcast.net/~johnchaplain/shaft1.jpg
Is this normal or is this due to overheating because of misalignment?
The alignment tool only goes in about a third of the way into the
coupling before it binds up. My second question is I'm wondering how
bad the alignement is if the tool goes in freely at least a third of
the way, it seems that that must be pretty close. Is that offalignment
bad enough to have overheated the shaft?
TIA,
John C.