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We have hit the gimbal bearing all around but it still won’t go in. I think we’re just going to give up and sell the boat to someone for cheap because it will not go on no matter what we try

We have done very light grease and it is still not going in. It feels like it’s hitting something metal but the splines look fine and we have spun the prop. I don’t know what else we could try to get this in. We’ve tried everything else I’ve seen like moving the inside of the bearing and...

I’m not actually sure if we had our orings greased enough, I’ll pay more attention to those when we try tonight. We have been making sure the prop locks ccw. We learned that one early lol.

So we took the outdrive back off and found that we were able to get the bearing in more. And we checked alignment after and the tool goes in nicely with even spline marks. But we go to put the drive back on and we can’t even get the drive to the studs. It’s an alpha one gen 2. We have the drive...

Yeah we measured where the old one was and then drilled the hole to line up with that. Then with it lined up, we used that to hit the new one in

Would that be something that could be tightened or something or would I need to replace them? I’ve seen things about using clamps to get the caps tighter or something.

I’m thinking u joints but hoping for something easier 😂

Yeah, it did in neutral and in gear.

Attached is a video I took of our boat on the water. We recently replaced the bellows, gimbal bearing, and the shift cable. We used the alignment tool when getting the gimbal bearing back in. In the process we inspected the u-joints which looked good and had no play. The reason we did all the...