Drive Shaft Bellows Help

[seawallkid]

Replaced gimble bearing. No problem. Replaced u joints. Trying to replace bellows on a 1995 alpha 1 gen II. Has clamp on engine side. Has ring on drive side. Placed bellows on drive no problem. Can not figure how to drive ring into bellows. Have tried every way to drive ring into bellows from drive side. It just wont go. Please help. Thanks.

Rich

 

[Reel Poor]

Re: Drive Shaft Bellows Help

Get some Mercury Power Tune and spray on it, some claim you can push it in with your fingers after lubing with it. You may have to hold it in for a minute or two once it slides in.

 

[G1K]

Re: Drive Shaft Bellows Help

What exactly is mercury power tune? Similar to what other chemical?

Ryan

 

[Don S]

Re: Drive Shaft Bellows Help

Power Tune is a Merc product for cleaning carbon out of 2 stroke outboards. It also makes rubber parts like bellows slippery for a while.
I would bet that all Merc dealers stock it.

 

[G1K]

Re: Drive Shaft Bellows Help

I've used this trick for installing hand grips on motorcycles.

Hair spray. It make the rubber slippery for a minute or so. It dries and adheres the grip to the bar. If I can't get the power tune locally tomorrow (Sunday, not sure who's open) I'm going to give the hair spray a shot.


gasoline work aslo, at least for grips. I don't want to chance having the gas attack the bellows and cause a premature failure...


Ryan