AeroCraft York 1960ish Transom, Stringers, Deck

[saginawbayboater]

I will be using the original basket case housing from the four winns because it's in much better shape then the unit i purchased for parts. "see the broken bolts and corrosion"




This case has nice threaded holes and a lot less corrosion.

 

[GT1000000]

Morning SBB,
Glad to see you making good progress on the gear case.
Thanks for sharing the reconditioning steps, hope it goes as smoothly as possible...I may be tackling a similar project in the distant future with my old gear case and have already picked up a great trick from your dis assembly by using the all thread rod as long pulling bolts for the puller...funny how I have been in automotive industry for the better part of 4 decades and that had never occurred to me...ingenious!
You have probably already thought of this, but I have to ask...are you going to run a tap in all the bolt holes?
Happy Friday!

 

[saginawbayboater]

You have probably already thought of this, but I have to ask...are you going to run a tap in all the bolt holes?

Hi GT, I power washed the housing and each bolt hole looked really good. I also ran a bolt down each hole by hand to be sure they aren't jimmied up.:thumb:

 

[saginawbayboater]

I'm glad to be going back together with this Evinrude Lower unit. Today I was able to install the NOS pinion bearing I picked up on the web.


In order to install this bearing I needed a bearing puller of some sort to pull it into place. So not wanting to spend big money on OMC tools that may never get used again i went to HF and picked up a bearing and bushing installer set for like 19 bucks. Then with some all thread and angle iron I was able to pull it into place.

 

[saginawbayboater]

This is the empty housing where the new bearing needs to go.


Then I set the bearing and installer in the housing.


Next the all thread was fished up from the bottom and the wing nut was started with a long needle nose. A few four letter word inserted hear.


Then slip a angle over the all thread and draw the bearing into the housing.

 

[saginawbayboater]

Here you can see the bearing is all the way in. After drawing the bearing in it stops against the screw inside the bore.


you can just barely see the bearing stop screw thread on the left side of the bore.


This the screw head on the outside of the housing near the water inlet.

 

[Trooper82]

Nice work!

 

[GT1000000]

Professional and perfecto!

 

[saginawbayboater]

Assembly of the lower unit is coming together!

Dropped the output shaft assembly in the housing and then the input shaft and pinion.

 

[saginawbayboater]

OMC uses a special tool to hold the pinion nut, but I made due with a crow foot welded to some rebar. Also had to buy a input shaft splined socket so the pinion nut could to be torqued to 100 ft lbs. Also used thread locker on the pinion nut. The crowfoot worked good up to about 90 some ft lbs but up around 100 the nut rounded off and slipped out of the wrench. Oh well close enough.

 

[saginawbayboater]

There are two big snap rings that hold the output shaft bearing retainer in and of course there is a large snap ring pliers you can buy. But I bought a inexpensive long needle nose and ground the tips down. They work great!!

 

[saginawbayboater]

Had to take a break and rented a pontoon on Houghton lake for some R n R. The admiral and daughter and daughters friend had some fun too.

 

[sphelps]

Looks like a great time on the lake with the family !

 

[saginawbayboater]

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Little update. Bolted up the input shaft bearing mount with a little free play up and down.

 

[saginawbayboater]

and some other stuff.

 

[saginawbayboater]

and then the water pump



glued in the o-rings one internal one external.

 

[saginawbayboater]

bolt the cover down.

 

[saginawbayboater]

next add the exhaust adapter.


Tommorrow hopefully we can install the lower unit on the Outboard!! Until then Peace Out!!:very_drunk:

 

[Woodonglass]

SBB, Been there DoneThat very recently!!! Ya Dun Rite Good!!!! Ya gunna give the motor a fresh coat of paint when she's all rebuilt??

 

[saginawbayboater]

Ya WOG I will give it a paint job. I haven't decided on colors yet, but I will keep it simple like maybe all white with black or blue EVINRUDE.


we will see.