dragging bottom

[wimpie]

I just happen to drag bottom with my out board and took the paint off the skeg but didn't look like any damage had been done. Although when I went to lower the the motor back down it sounded like dry bushings or something to the sort. I think it was coming from the push rods on the trim when they made contact to the bushings on the lower unit. When I got the boat back home I looked everything over real good and couldn't see anything other than some paint missing. I stood on the lower unit in the down position and then raised and lowered the motor and the squeking noise was about gone. just wondering if this is normal or did I mess something up, was thinking of putting a little bit of grease on the pads and see if that would have cured it but didn't look like they had grease on them before so want to make sure everything is right rather than covering it up with a quick fix. <br /> Thanks for any info

 

[DJ]

Re: dragging bottom

John,<br /><br />I am thinking you put enough pressure on the trim system to overide some relief valves in the system.<br /><br />Your forcing the trim may have bleed the system back to normal. Just guessing. I've had units that squealed when they had air in them.

 

[wimpie]

Re: dragging bottom

Thanks for the Reply dJohns, I did drag the skegg pretty hard and it seemed like the rams were not hitting the pads just right,It sounded like an old Ford front end use to when you couldn't get to the bushings to grease them. All I need to do I guess is find somewhere I can get some touch up paint to match Yamaha now so I can repaint the skegg. Would like to keep it looking new.