gear oil change

[saulgonzalez]

i have a 85hp force model#856x4l were in the manual say's to remove the drain plug if you have vent and fill plug's on the top of the ldrive my problem is i need to change the oil and can't get the plug out any suggesting.

 

[walleyehed]

Re: gear oil change

If you can't get the plug out because it's head is stripped, dip your screwdriver into some valve grinding compound, and try again...<br />Be sure you are removing the correct plug as the pivot bolt-pin for the shift fork is in the same proximity as the drain plug...

 

[saulgonzalez]

Re: gear oil change

wallleye the screw will turn and gear oil will come out slowly but the screw wont come out.

 

[walleyehed]

Re: gear oil change

As I said above, make sure you don't pull the pin-plug for the shift fork, and that sounds like what you've got there.....Force was somehow thinking unclearly when they designed the pivot-pin for the fork, as it's in the same location one would think it to be for the drain plug...check the other side, and make sure.

 

[WhiteHorse]

Re: gear oil change

Bolts are the same side. Look directly below that bolt down in the curved area where the gearcase meets the skeg. There should be a large drain screw exactly like the type of screw you removed for the vent and fill.