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The saga continues. I removed entire drive assemblies down to the gimbal housings on my twin 2003 VP 5.7GXi DP-SM. I did this to access the steering spindle arms and associated bearings and o-rings which were both leaking water into the engine compartment. One spindle arm came off without a...
I have twin VP 5.7GXiD DuoProp sterndrive setup in a 2003 Doral 330SE (Elegante). The upper steering pivot seals leak on both engines at the rate of approximately one drop every two seconds (the water leaks around the seal, flows forward on the housing, then back aft and down, and finally comes...