Need help on a hose replacement for trim, pic inside

[Newbie@boats]

While giving the boat a complete once over today, new prop, plugs wires oil change etc I noticed a small drip of blue fluid going into my oil catch pan and I realized it's coming from the small rubber hose for the trim fluid.

Anyone know how to replace this hose? I assume I have to remove the complete outdrive assembly, any guidence would be great since boating season is almost here!

It is the rubber hose with the zip tie around it

 

[Bt Doctur]

Yes ,drive comes of and housing comes off. that hose probably dry rotted. the part with the ty wrap is plastic. cut the hose off with a razor knife,
the other end in the housing is on a brass barbed fitting. most good auto stores carry that type of oil hose.

 

[Bondo]

Ayuh,.... Must be an Alpha, Gen.II,.... The oil resv. hose,......

 

[Newbie@boats]

Yes it is a alpha gen 2 I have plenty of hose here to replace it.

I can remove the drive no problem but never removed the "housing" can you tell me how difficult that is going to be? Should I use a new zip tie for that end? And I assume I can just slip the new hose onto the brass fitting?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Newbie@boats]

I was actually able to replace that hose without removing the entire outdrive assembly it took a lot of patience and a few different needle nose pliers but it's all good now!

 

[Newbie@boats]

Just an update, before I went to put the out-drive back on last night, I gave everything a good look over and noticed my shift cable bellow had a tiny tiny hole in it, long story short I removed the part the outdrive bolts to, and am going to replace every bellow and the water intake hose as well as the shift cable. I want to do it all and do it right the first time.

 

[Newbie@boats]

Just finished getting the outdrive back on, all new bellows, oil line, and water intake line as well. Gimbal bearing looked great I greased it while I was in there. I just have to adjust the shift cable this weekend and I'll be on the lake! for some reason the assembly was much easier than disassembly for whatever odd reason

 

[Newbie@boats]

I also installed a brand new shift cable as well

 

[fishrdan]

Good to hear that you replaced all those rubber parts since the drive lube hose was leaking and shift cable bellow was bad, only a matter of time until the other rubber parts had problems too. You should be good for another 5 years or so on all those new soft parts.