1984 Sea Ray - Alpha I Drive - 5.7
Greetings! So while fighting a high RPM overheat issue I was dumb and used too much water pressure to attempt to back flush and look for leaks from the thermostat housing hose, back. The result – water bypassed the gimbal to outdrive O ring, into the bellows. Decided to do the whole transom seal / repair process including shift cable. During disassembly, I noticed that the trim limit and tilt sender wires were toast so decided to replace those as well. My outdrive is of the 1984 variety and has the wire cover with the two bolts. The upper bolt is impossible to get to using swivel sockets, etc. I read somewhere that Merc used to have a special wrench available but no luck finding one. Any help, suggestions ideas are very much welcome. Thanks!!!
Greetings! So while fighting a high RPM overheat issue I was dumb and used too much water pressure to attempt to back flush and look for leaks from the thermostat housing hose, back. The result – water bypassed the gimbal to outdrive O ring, into the bellows. Decided to do the whole transom seal / repair process including shift cable. During disassembly, I noticed that the trim limit and tilt sender wires were toast so decided to replace those as well. My outdrive is of the 1984 variety and has the wire cover with the two bolts. The upper bolt is impossible to get to using swivel sockets, etc. I read somewhere that Merc used to have a special wrench available but no luck finding one. Any help, suggestions ideas are very much welcome. Thanks!!!
