It Turns out it looking like the mechanic put the drive shaft bearing on the wrong way. Monday he is going to take it apart again and make sure the bearing is on the correct way. Hopefully thats what is causing the pinion gear to sit too high.
well i took the lower end to the only omc dealer in town to get rebuild cause i was told the gears have to be set with special tools. mechanic has had it for about 6 months now and is just now working on it but is having an issue with the pinion gear sitting to high and when he put the pinion...
Hi, i have a 1989 bayliner with a 2.3 ford and a omc cobra tko outdrive. i have posted before about throttle linkage for a outlaw card and have got that all figured out. second trip out the forward gear broke some teeth off so i bought all the parts needed to rebuild it and dropped it off at...
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I orderer the kit with the red adjusters, red clamp and hardware and everything worked great.
But with the offset of the throttle cable and bracket, the bracket originally pivoted horizontally well i made a bracket so and mounter the pivoting bracket vertically and it worked great
Thanks i really appreciate the info, im still in the process of cleaning everything up. Im thinking of taking both halves to a machine shop and having them dip them in a hot tank to clean them really good cause there is a lot of metal shavings and stuff and i want everything to be nice and...
Thats cool you were a evinrude tech, but bummer you can’t shed some light on that cradle and lever. No worries Ill figure it out, iv come this far haha.
You are correct. I found all three gears on eday for less than $200 with shipping. So im in the process of cleaning everything out and ill be ordering a gimble and ujoints and impellar. Then ill need a lower gear case seal kit and a upper seal kit. Not sure if ill need anything else to put...