Putting my lower unit back together has not been hard to do until I got to installing the pinion gear.
I put the propeller shaft in the housing. Attached the shift shaft and put the unit into reverse.(There seems to be more play with the shaft that way). But getting the pinion gear in is a...
I received 4 seals in a 5000309 kit I bought for the lower unit in my J70TLCRD. Two of the seals appear to be for the drive shaft. They are just like the ones I pulled from my drive shaft bearing housing. The other two seals are single "double lip" seals. One of the two appears to be the size of...
I took the lower unit off for 2 reasons 1. There was water in the lower unit 2. The remote control would not shift into forward. (It will do reverse)
The flywheel does rotate
The remote control will shift into forward with the lower unit off
With the lower unit off, the shift rod will shift...