OK, is it safe to assume I can fiddle with the barrel on the drive cable to get it to lock in both forward and reverse? When I adjust the stud as far as I need in order for the reverse to engage, forward nolonger engages. Assuming that is acceptable I have it adjusted to the point where it...
MC1 drives here. I’m reassembling after a motor out transom rebuild. I also had my drives rebuilt. I bought rebuilt transom assemblies, and I just reassembled and installed the shift cable. Everything seemed to go together by the directions and when I put the shift lever in forward gear, the...
Its been awhile since I posted but I am restoring a Bertram 25 with twin 165's. I had the outdrives rebuilt, I bought rebuilt transom assemblies, and I have all of that in and am in the process of installing the hydraulics. I found all the specs on the o-rings and did a full rebuild of the...
The manual, written in 1980 or whatever, says to use adhesive to hold in the o-ring and to install the paper gasket dry. Is that still conventional wisdom? The drives and transom assemblies have been rebuilt and freshly painted so they are clean and flat.
1974 Bertram 25, Twin 165's (replaced...
Ok, I had the mounts cut 1.5 inches shorter and the port engine aligned perfectly. The starboard engine gets really close but feels like it may be off a smidge… it just doesn’t slide in as well as the port side…. Perhaps it’s just that I inserted the alignment tool so many times on the port...
You nailed it. I had this same thought this week and disconnected and removed the mount to go lower today. The engine beds were very rotten and I rebuilt them completely, from the bottom up, and I built them too thick. My lowest engine bracket setting is about 3/4 inch high on the stbd side...
I have the rigging all set up to lift the front of the motors. I think Im going to wait until I have a second set of hands because moving the winch one click and climbing back out of the boat is getting old :)
