I have an E35ELCSM I am replacing the lower end seals in. I need some advice on installing the prop shaft. I do not have the "special tool" to hold the spring and two balls. Is there a substitute or a trick? It looks like the tool indexes in the dog to put the balls in the correct location and...
I have an E35ELCSM that I rebuilt last year on my duck boat. Yesterday about 0400 I couldn't get the motor to let down with the tilt/run lever and had to reach under and manually move everything to get it down. The spring tension is gone off the lever and I can slide the shaft out of the hole...
Ran my newly rebuilt 1980 Evinrude 35 this weekend. Weird thing happening. At one specific RPM, the bendix gear on the starter will occasionally "bounce" up and bump the flywheel teeth and make a buzzing sound when it bounces off. It's almost like a harmonic vibration causing it to go up...
I have a 1980 35HP Evinrude. Does anybody have a trick for holding the flywheel while doing 105# of torque?
I see they make a special holder but I don't have one.
Any help appreciated.
I am rebuilding my 1980 E35ELCSM outboard. The Water Tube Guide item #114, part #321513 listed under the Exhaust Housing parts breakdown is obsolete. It is a bushing/guide that the water tube goes through on the internal exhaust housing. Mine is melted and burned to a crisp.
Can anyone help...
I need to press new pistons on my 1980 35HP Evinrude. The manual says I have to have a special jig to keep from distorting the pistons. Can someone shed some common sense truth to this statement and tell me how a poor country boy can do it without one? I have a press and about every...
I have a 1980 model Mercury Thruster foot control trolling motor. The gears are gone in the head that work the arrow that tells you which way the motor is pointed. Everywhere I look the gears are listed obsolete. The trolling motor still works great and I would like to fix the arrow. Can...
