oscar.zulu
New Member
Hello all,
I'm writing about an issue my brother is having with his Mercruiser Sterndrive... unfortunately I don't have the model number, all I know is that there is an alpha in the name. I'm in miami and the boat is over in Naples just to make troubleshooting even more fun.
The problem is, is that the stern drive will not lower. I went over last week to do maintenance on it for him... did the oil and then went to do the drive oil, and couldn't get the unit to lower. (It's been a couple of months since my brother has used the boat.)
I called a SR service tech who advised me to jump on it while someone else hit the lower button... but that didn't work.
He said the next course of action was to rebuild the lift rams. I'm wondering if anyone has had the same problem and whether it's possible to repair this on my own. The service tech said that this was a common problem, but after scanning 46 pages of threads I haven't seen this to be true.
Thanks in advance!
Oz
I'm writing about an issue my brother is having with his Mercruiser Sterndrive... unfortunately I don't have the model number, all I know is that there is an alpha in the name. I'm in miami and the boat is over in Naples just to make troubleshooting even more fun.
The problem is, is that the stern drive will not lower. I went over last week to do maintenance on it for him... did the oil and then went to do the drive oil, and couldn't get the unit to lower. (It's been a couple of months since my brother has used the boat.)
I called a SR service tech who advised me to jump on it while someone else hit the lower button... but that didn't work.
He said the next course of action was to rebuild the lift rams. I'm wondering if anyone has had the same problem and whether it's possible to repair this on my own. The service tech said that this was a common problem, but after scanning 46 pages of threads I haven't seen this to be true.
Thanks in advance!
Oz
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