halmc
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2008
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As may be seen in another thread I began recently The drive shaft was stuck so badly on my Classic 45 that it ripped out of the lower unit instead of the powerhead, leaving considerable carnage in its path.
Fortunately, the rather thin pinion nut that holds the pinion gear on the end of the shaft rendered up its threads w/o discrenable damage to the threads on the end of the shaft.
Still more fortunately, essentially all of the parts in the way of the shaft ripping out of the lower unit were not only somewhat soft parts, they all come in iBoat's Sierra waterpump kit!
So after buying the waterpump kit from iBoats and a very few proprietary parts from my Merc dealer (three 1/4" studs, two 7/16" studs, the pinion nut, and a cover nut) and accessing the pinion nut (which required partial disassembly of the prop shaft, etc, I am back on the water!
The moral of the story: even in this fairly startling failure, the Merc is robust enough to endure the abuse of repair, and iBoats is standing by with shiny new parts!
Fortunately, the rather thin pinion nut that holds the pinion gear on the end of the shaft rendered up its threads w/o discrenable damage to the threads on the end of the shaft.
Still more fortunately, essentially all of the parts in the way of the shaft ripping out of the lower unit were not only somewhat soft parts, they all come in iBoat's Sierra waterpump kit!
So after buying the waterpump kit from iBoats and a very few proprietary parts from my Merc dealer (three 1/4" studs, two 7/16" studs, the pinion nut, and a cover nut) and accessing the pinion nut (which required partial disassembly of the prop shaft, etc, I am back on the water!
The moral of the story: even in this fairly startling failure, the Merc is robust enough to endure the abuse of repair, and iBoats is standing by with shiny new parts!
