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    What reason causes the water leaking into gimbal bearing house?

    Is it possible that water leaks from the shift cable area? Also Can I reuse the gasket after I apply some silicom?
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    What reason causes the water leaking into gimbal bearing house?

    it seems that my big rubber O-ring was never installed. I will put it back
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    What reason causes the water leaking into gimbal bearing house?

    I cannot remember when I did the pressure testing. But the gear oil is good and is not milky. I did not see the large rubber ring. Could you please upload some pics for the large rubber ring?
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    What reason causes the water leaking into gimbal bearing house?

    My boat engine is Mercruiser alpha one gen 1, 1989,120HP,2.0L. Last time I found some water leaking into gimbal bearing house. After I did the seal of gimbal bearing bellow and exhaust bellow and lower shift cable. In the past 2 weeks it run faster at the beginning into water, after 8 hous' in...
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    It seem the nut of the low shift cable was loosen and It did not leak one day in the lake after I made it tight
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    Water can be seen in the slide block house. What is the reason cause the leaking water? Is it possible the nut of lower shift cable loosen?
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    Today I run my motor at my driveway after one day in the lake and I heard that there some click noise from outdrive then I took the outdrive off and found some white water flew away from lower shift cable. also I upload all the pictures of my gimbal bearing house. Do you know where is the...
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    I know the bellow is good. only it is leaking. So sometime I do not like to raise the outdrive too high. and Now I get more familiar with reseaing. Also I found that it is dirty beside the lower shift cable. See attached file at No. 300. What happened? Yesterday I just ignored this issue
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    It seems that I have to do the bellows reseal every year.
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    is my gimbal bearing in the good working condition? the below is leaking. and I have to reseal it. Maybe the leaking into water led to the damage the sealed gimbal bearing.
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    Should I do any maintain for the sealed bearing. I tried to turn it by my hand and felt it is not very smoothy while turning
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    Is this OEM? The link is following ...
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    I just like to confirm this bearing is sealed or grease.
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    Can the base of engine work? Two to bolts under engine are rusted and can

    Anyone can help me check again this gimbal bearing had hole or not? At that time I could not find a hole for grease filling, now I tried to fill the grease. and attached file is what I saw. You can click the link to see the detail of the gimbal bearing I bought 2 years ago. Maybe I have to pull...
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    Which engine oil can I add?

    The second and the third are Blend, they should be the same. The first one is not blend. But I think we cannot mix the first and the second together because one is blend and other is not.
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    Which engine oil can I add?

    I have different engine oil at my home and I need to add a little into my engine. What a pity I forgot which was added into my engine last winter. Is quicksilver gear lube part no. 92-8m0078634 the same 92-8m0078635 and how about 92-8m0078636? somebody told me engine will get into trouble if...
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    Mercruiser 4.3L lift points

    I cannot turn it over manually any more. give up.
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    Mercruiser 4.3L lift points

    I have applied foil oil and w40. It still is difficult to turn it over manually. So sad. I have found milky oil in the engine
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    Mercruiser 4.3L lift points

    All of the spark plugs are out of the motor. it is very difficult to turn it over manually. Should I apply WD40 or foil oil in the cylinders?
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    Mercruiser 4.3L lift points

    I checked engine oil, it seems the engine oil is good. not milky
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