Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

[Fishermark]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

Fill with the outdrive down.

 

[Zackman]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

To fill the drive, put a level on the anti-cavitation plate and make sure the drive is level. With both the vent and drain plugs removed, fill from the bottom until the gear oil appears at the vent hole. Insert the vent plug as you change bottles, since this will help decrease the amount of oil, which drains back. Once oil is coming out the vent hole (top hole) install the drain plug. With the vent plug removed, go to the reservoir and add lube to the fill line. With the reservoir cap off, wait until the vent drain hole begins to overflow (you now have bleed the reservoir system.) Put the vent plug in and wait a little while until you put the reservoir cap back on.

Use new gaskets on the drain and vent plugs and make sure the little vent hole on the reservoir cap is not plugged. Also, make sure you removed the reservoir and cleaned out all the crap that settles to the bottom before putting new lube in the drive.

After a while, reinstall the reservoir cap and let it sit over night. The next morning, with the reservoir level (easy to tell from the level in the reservoir) fill the reservoir to the full mark.

 

[Sherminator]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

well good news its done...err well i think so.. about a quart and a half came out and about a quart and a 1/4 went back into the stern and the other 1/4 went into the resivoir. So all in all i put back in what i took out but what a pain in the *****.. especially trying to squeze the quarts of oil into the lower hole... i ended up squeezing what i could out of 1 quart (bottle left about half full) and then squeezed a little over half of another quart into it. but towards the end i couldnt squeeze anymore in the bottom hole so i put the plug in the bottom and put a little fluid into the top one and after about 15 seconds of slow stream squezing it came out the vent hole and i put the cap back on. then filled the resivior back to full.... now when do take it out maybe next weekend, ill keep a good eye on the resivoir.

 

[95yj]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

The way to do this is to use a little hand pump to force oil in from the drain hole. You cannot add oil through the vent hole as an air pocket will form between the oil in the bottom of the drive and the oil you added through the vent hole.

 

[Wotam]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

>"what a pain in the *****.. especially trying to squeze the quarts of oil into the lower hole... i ended up squeezing what i could out of 1 quart"

Most marine stores sell a little pump that screws onto the top of an outdrive lube bottle. A clear plastic hose leads to a threaded fitting that matches the filler holes in the outdrive. Screw it in the outdrive and pump away. It takes a just a few minutes to do the job and there is little spillage.

A cheaper version of the pump can be found at auto parts stores (about $10) that doesn't have the threaded end for the outdrive, (has a little plastic 'cone' instead) but if you have a helper to hold the cone against the filler hole while you pump you can fill the drive quite easily.

Good investment. (Edited: Simultaneous post to the one above)

 

[Zackman]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

Good point about the quart sized oil pump... I bought one of the Quicksilver (Merc) ones at the local Wally World for around $10. It has the 3/8" threaded connection and a check valve in the pump stem to simplify changing the gear lube bottles as you fill the drive.

 

[HT32BSX115]

Re: Gear lube resivoir-potential prob?

I used one of those cheap auto-parts store models after I took a die from my trusty Sears Craftsman Tap & Die set and threaded the cone enough to screw it into the drain hole. It worked just fine! Just make sure you put enough threads on it and don't put too much torque on the plastic fitting or it will pop out at the wrong time and make a wonderful oily mess!!


Cheers,

Rick