Liquid_force
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- May 7, 2003
- Messages
- 318
Hey...<br />I bought the $100 transom service kit from basic power to do b4 the season.<br /><br />I've gotten the old bearing out and the new one in. Since my alignment tool didn't arrive on time I removed the u-joint shaft from the stern drive to use as a temp alignment tool.<br /><br />What's really confusing me is that it seems the u-joint shaft is too large for the new gimbal bearing! The shaft taper seems to exceed the ID of the bearing just before it reaches the o-rings - which I assume are supposed to ride inside the gimbal bearing. To the naked eye it seems that there's a significant difference in diameter -- 1/16"? Maybe 1/8"? But I'll admit my level of panic could be effecting my approximation.<br /><br />Is it possible the alignment is so far off the u-joint shaft appears too large for the gimbal bearing?<br /><br />I contacted basic power and was told there's no "larger" bearing that could have been mistakenly shipped with my kit -- the same part is used for mercs/omc's/volvo's, and as for the u-joint shaft - the only variance for my drive is length.<br /><br />For now this appears to be a significant problem.<br /><br />Any thoughts?
