Old Vet
New Member
- Sep 12, 2010
- 706
- Boat Info
- 1987 268 Sundancer
- Engines
- 454 Magnum, Alpha One
Has anyone here successfully replaced their own U-Joint bellows?
I bought this boat late this season and had it out 4 times for a total of 11 hours. It's now on blocks at my house.
Each time out....I'd get an excessive amount of water in my bilge. I mean quite alot of water. When tying up to the dock....the bilge pump would start and a solid heavy stream of water would get pumped out for a good 2-3-4 minutes.
I've hunted everywhere and not been able to locate where it was coming from. Until perhaps today.
I removed my outdrive today and upon inspection of the bellows, it appears that the U-Joint bellows has become detached in at least 3 places on the inner end around the gimbal bearing..
If I'm not mistaken...these bellows are supposed to be secured in place first with some bellows cement...and then a clamp. Correct?
It appears that the inner end of the bellows has possibly pulled out from under the clamp in 3 spots as depicted in the attached picture.
Does it look like that to anyone else? If you can tell by my picture?
Seeing a Youtube video on how to replace these bellows....it doesn't really look like too huge a job.....is it?
I bought this boat late this season and had it out 4 times for a total of 11 hours. It's now on blocks at my house.
Each time out....I'd get an excessive amount of water in my bilge. I mean quite alot of water. When tying up to the dock....the bilge pump would start and a solid heavy stream of water would get pumped out for a good 2-3-4 minutes.
I've hunted everywhere and not been able to locate where it was coming from. Until perhaps today.
I removed my outdrive today and upon inspection of the bellows, it appears that the U-Joint bellows has become detached in at least 3 places on the inner end around the gimbal bearing..
If I'm not mistaken...these bellows are supposed to be secured in place first with some bellows cement...and then a clamp. Correct?
It appears that the inner end of the bellows has possibly pulled out from under the clamp in 3 spots as depicted in the attached picture.
Does it look like that to anyone else? If you can tell by my picture?
Seeing a Youtube video on how to replace these bellows....it doesn't really look like too huge a job.....is it?