I had water in my 1986 Alpha I drive oil so I pulled lower unit. Replaced water pump, shift shaft bushing and the little rubber gasket that sits between the upper and lower drive to see if that was the problem (relatively easy and and cheap). When apart, I noticed that the drive shaft seal in the upper unit didn't look too great.
Put it back together, refilled and ran for about 5 min. Noticed the next day a little bit of oil from the forward-most gear housing stud (was sitting overnight in full tilt up position). I lowered the unit and the next day saw oil (small amount) from bottom weep hole. Ran engine again. After I shut it off, and went back to check things out, a guzzle of oil and water were coming out of the prop hub. Figured this was bad so I drained oil and pulled the entire outdrive off. (note - this was my fist time doing this and the top unit didn't exactly "slide" right off. I had to jimmy it little by little. Took about ten minutes in all being very careful. Normal?)
Anyway, once it came off, a splash of oil came out and there was a pool of oil sitting in the u-joint bellows.
Prior to messing around with ANY of this I had no oil leaking from the outdrive at all - just milky oil. I tend to think I aggravated a problem up top when I pulled the bottom off the first time.
Does this sound like I just need the unit resealed? How could I go from milky oil to total failure like this? Thanks..
Put it back together, refilled and ran for about 5 min. Noticed the next day a little bit of oil from the forward-most gear housing stud (was sitting overnight in full tilt up position). I lowered the unit and the next day saw oil (small amount) from bottom weep hole. Ran engine again. After I shut it off, and went back to check things out, a guzzle of oil and water were coming out of the prop hub. Figured this was bad so I drained oil and pulled the entire outdrive off. (note - this was my fist time doing this and the top unit didn't exactly "slide" right off. I had to jimmy it little by little. Took about ten minutes in all being very careful. Normal?)
Anyway, once it came off, a splash of oil came out and there was a pool of oil sitting in the u-joint bellows.
Prior to messing around with ANY of this I had no oil leaking from the outdrive at all - just milky oil. I tend to think I aggravated a problem up top when I pulled the bottom off the first time.
Does this sound like I just need the unit resealed? How could I go from milky oil to total failure like this? Thanks..
