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alpha drive shift cable replacement
Mike
Hope you have disassembled the shift shaft already, if not do so while waiting. Likely it is stuck and you may have to break the shift arm to get it out and have to wait again for replacements. If you have to break the arm, drill the aluminium arm before chiselling it apart, avoid drilling or damaging the screw and it may be reuseable. The black insert, I too wondered where that went. Maybe the through hole in the transom assembly, but couldn't tell whether its from the interior or exterior, left it out when I did mine. Don't forget to check the nut torques again after running it. The gasket can set and inital torque lost, gaps will allow water to reach the cable. Hope everything went well. Tan PS "mike hicks" wrote in message news:IPmgc.25840$XP2.9571@lakeread06... So I'm knee deep in it now. I'm at the shift cable reassembly stage but I have to wait for a shift shaft bushing/seal kit because the local mercruiser dealer is out of stock (typical). There was a lot of corrosion gunk around the shift arm and shaft so I think the seal was a bit leaky. It's mostly gone smoothly with only an occasional bad word spoken. The good news is that the lower unit shifts manually quite nicely - no binding or stiffness and the prop shaft locks up in the correct directions. It seems good. My drive shaft splines seem to be in good shape too and I took the opportunity to lube up the u-joints. I made the crimp tool for the shift cable boot per the Seloc manual but I only hot-glued the split nut to my pliers instead of welding and it worked great! The $20 special socket I bought worked too and seemed to be necessary. It does seem that outdrive work is meant for people with MUCH smaller hands than me though. Does anyone know what the black plastic snap-in insert that came with the cable kit is for? I haven't seen a similar part on the boat. Thanks for the inputs everyone. Someday this clinker WILL return to the water!! |
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