Re: Mercruiser Water Shutter Part Information
don't know if its the right part # or not.
the flapper looks eliptical when layin on a flat surface. it has a fat flat bar down the center of the short side of the elpise. you still have the fat flat bar mounted in yer exhust pipe. the flappers are gone.....
get yerself a oem service manual, ya'll be money ahead.....
from memory the manual says remove the exhust pipe. which i believe ya have to do to drill the rivots as mentioned above. then ya can install yer new flapper. reinstall some new rivots, silicon the end of the flapper to the exhust pipe, and put it back together again. i think ya'll find 3 bolts at the very bottom of the transom shield on the inside is where ya remove the exhust pipe from......mucho work. hope ya don't break any screws off.
folks probably are gonna dog me to death for this statement. but. i figured i'd be breakin off some exhust pipe bolts, if i could get to them. so with that in mind. the bar you have left in the pipe, won't come out. bend it in the middle and it'll get shorter, ya'll be able to get it out. heres the bad part. i bent the new one the same way with the nice new flappers and all. got it short enough to slide in. unbent it with some big pliers, siliconed it and put it back together......i don't recomend doing it the way i did at all. it's not proper and i may pay for it with a lost flapper pluggin my exhust later on......but it did get the flapper installed..........so far it's lasted a 100+ hours i'd think.......i'm inland too. don't get to far away from land.......just food for thought.......
