Gear Lube In Bilge

Does any one have specific directions for changing the gear lube fitting that goes through the transom? I would prefer no to pull an engine or drive. The boat is a 95 270 with twin 4.3's and alpha drives in case it doesn't show up in my signature.

The hose is attached to a manifold that sits under the transom assembly on the outside of the boat. It may have a big zinc plate attached to it. Mine does. I just replaced the manifold due to it corroding out. Once i removed it i could pull down the 2 hoses that come from the reservoir, cleaned up the threads and re-attached everything.

We aren't talking about the same fitting. This is the one for the outdrive gear oil coming from the reservoir.

It's a plastic fitting at the top of the transom assembly, follow the hose from the gear lube bottle.

On most boats it is a real PIA to get to, might have to disconnect some of the steering and remove the PS cooler to get to it.
There is a quick disconnect on the inside, just squeeze and pull it off.
Once inside hose is off, there is a "C" clip that holds the fitting in, remove that and the fitting should pull out from the outside of the transom.
To re-install the new one, just slide the fitting into place from the outside of the transom, put the C clip on to hold it, then connect the quick disconnect.
The hard part is getting the new C clip on from the inside due to access. I made sure I had a couple of C clips, I tied a piece of fishing line to it to keep from loosing it - I ended up just leaving the fishing line attached after the clip was back on.
I would replace all of the gear lube hose while you are at it, especially the piece between the transom and outdrive. Connecting the hose on the outdrive side is another PIA, do that before you put the bell housing back on if you can.

This was the single most PIA part I have ever replaced on a boat - when I did my bellows last year, I knew to be careful about this when I removed the hose on the outside and even being careful it still broke - and I was trying to cut mine like has been said, they get brittle and just break easy. Spent 3hrs replacing a $20 part that took 2 seconds to break!

This may help...

The part you are interested in is at 19:55. It will start just a little before that...

[video=youtube;q-R-cMkWYok]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-R-cMkWYok[/video]

Thanks for the info. Turns out mine have brass fittings and it was only the elbow fitting.