Recent content by Natedogg86

We did take the lower unit off and had a new water pump put in. Had a hell of a time getting it back on. I thought we had put it back on right. I shifted ok out of the water. How would u check to see if that actuator was installed correctly?

I just got my boat earlier this spring. Finally got it on the water for the first time today after a lot of work restoring a boat that hasn't seen water in almost ten years. The engine run's great except when u put it in gear. The throttle sticks when u push it in fwd and when u ease back to put...

sounds like it will work. ill know this weekend and repost let u know 2 know. thank you. we already replaced that o-ring btw. thanks both of u.

There are two gears on the lower unit one is the drive shaft the other is a much smaller gear that i believe is for the transmission, i don't know i could be wrong. we can get the smaller gear to line up but not the shaft. we had to put the engine in gear to take the lower unit off and im...

My old man and i recently bought a 79' weekender with a 260 mercruiser. we removed the lower unit of the the out drive to have work done on it, replacing water pump, pressure test, etc. we got the unit back and are having trouble getting all the gears to line up putting the thing back on. any...