How to replace reverse in an outdrive

Be sure to face the stern during this maneuver. I think it will give me better steering and a little bit more speed reversing.

Remove the lower drain plug and drain the gear lube into a clean pan to find out if water is actually in the drive.

How to replace reverse in an outdrive. If you put in a complete left rotate setup you are still gonna push and pull the cable the same as for a right hand setup. Forward gear is still forward gear and reverse gear is still reverse gear so you still have to pull the cable to engage reverse and push it to engage forward same as right hand drive. Hey I hired a recommended certified marine mechanic to put together and install my new se106 full unit outdrive which he said would take about 45 minutes at 80 an hour100min that sounded goodFive hours later.

Still couldnt get into reverse when mountedHe checked and adjusted everything 5 or 6 timestoo much to list with the. To reverse to the left turn the tiller to the right. Be sure to face the stern during this maneuver.

To reverse to the right push the tiller to the left. This will reverse the stern of the boat to the right. Remember that the stern moves in the opposite direction.

You turn the tiller and always move at low speed. InboardOutboard Motors Stern Drive. A counter-rotation drive left hand turning prop must be in reverse.

Remove the trim cylinders and let them hang. Remove the six nuts that hold the drive to the bellhousing. Lift the drive a little and let it drop to break it free and assist in removing it.

The drive is heavy and you might screw up your back. Putting my outdrive back together after some extensive work on the upper gear unit transmission - with some invaluable guidance from Rick I might add. While pinning things up I thought Id take a look at the shift mechanism on the intermediate drive I had been having some issues with ease in getting into reverse.

Water in the u joint bellow likely means the bellow is compromised and in need of replacement not to big of a deal but other parts will also need to be replaced u joints at the very least. Remove the lower drain plug and drain the gear lube into a clean pan to find out if water is actually in the drive. In these cases more pressure needed to be applied to change the shifting state.

Especially to change back to neutral. Or to forward or reverse from neutral. A cable called lower shift cable goes through the transom.

This cable attaches the gear-change box. I took both shift cables off and was able to manually put it in reverse. After adjusting both cables all the way out it still wouldnt go in reverse.

The reason why I want to replace the stern drive with a jet is that. Will allow me to fish in shallow water currently with the sterndrive the boat draws almost 3ft of water. I think it will give me better steering and a little bit more speed reversing.

Since is a commercial gillneter when you set the net speed is of essence. OMC Cobra How to Change a Water Pump Impeller in OMC Cobra Sterndrive how to repair a stern drive - YouTube. We get a lot of calls asking if the Bravo can replace the Alpha Drive.

The Bravo will NOT fit directly onto an Alpha One gimbal housing assembly. If you want to convert to a Bravo you will need to replace the entire gimbal housing assembly. You may also need to get a different prop exhaust pipe belt driven water pump kit and.

Slide the lower gasket wear-plate and top gasket down the shaft in reverse order. Hold the key in place and engage the impeller with key slide impeller over key. Slide upper plastic housing down and while turning the drive-shaft clockwise push housing down over impeller.

Place an outdrive cart underneath the skeg to hold the drive level. Secure the outdrive to the cart. Remove all but one of the six nuts from the bell-housing stud with a socket wrench.

Leave the last nut loose. Turn it by hand. Every other year simple anodes oil change 1.

Cost 80 and at 200 last year some sort of reversing thingy on both -spotted at bellows service and done as precaution No breakdowns so far all on the buttonMine in Med salt water 258 days a years. Volvo 275 outdrive trim lock in down position First of all it is NOT a trim lock. Its called a reverse lock.

It has nothing to do with trim. There is no trim on that drive. Only the electro mechanical lift that raises the drive for trailering.

The discussion of outdrives on the KAD32 thread has prompted me to start this thread. Weve has an ongoing intermittent issue probably since we bought the boat whereby the port engine drive occasionally sticks in reverse instead of returning to neutral. Step 7 Disconnect the black ground wire by removing the nut from the down solenoid.

Remove the final nut and disconnect the down solenoid from the small green wire that connects to the trim switch on the throttle handle. Step 8 Using the new solenoids that you purchased repeat the above steps in reverse order. Once youve reconnected the battery test your handy work to make sure that your outdrive.

A sterndrive is an inboardoutboard motor that has an outboard lower unit which connects up through the transom of the boat to an inboard diesel or gas engine. The sterndrive IO has many advantages compared to a regular inboard boat motors. An inboard outboard motor is well known for its speed.

At the outdrive now you want to spin that teardrop shaped nut in or out until the plastic slide has the bell crank in a perfectly perpendicular position to the face of the bell housing. Replace the bolt and tighten it. You should now be able to adjust the engine side cables to achieve full shifting in both forward and reverse.

Youll need to remove the outdrive and then loosen the bellhousing so you can move it around a bit to access the clamps on the water hose. Shift the drive into fwd remove the rear tilt pin and then the 6 nuts holding the drive to the bellhousing. Really what you need to do is get a reverse lock kit.

The kit comes with all of the hardware the springs and locking pawls to do the job correctly. The problem with these older style reverse locks is that the springs and the pawls do wear and tear out that is aside from anything just breaking. Here is an example of the kit.