Hello All,
I wrote a while back about a Glastron 205GT with an overheated/vapor-locked VP 5.0GL motor that has sat for three years. I decided to buy it and am in the process of trying to bring it back to life.
I spent the past weekend trying to remove the motor with very little success. Initially I disassembled the motor mounts and tried to slide the motor out 6 inches; it did not want to slide out. I followed the Engine Remove/Install workshop manual**, hooked up the motor to an overhead chain hoist that I built, and a friend of mine and I pulled with all we had and it didn't seem to budge. Caveat: All four screws holding down the front engine mounts sheared off (despite tons of WD-40 and patience) and left 1/8" of the shank left protruding into the engine mounts. I had to lift the motor 1/8" to clear these shanks - maybe this was enough to cause the coupler to bind up and prevent the engine from sliding out? I spent the following day attempting to remove the SX outdrive to enable the motor to be lifted straight out. Again, I followed the workshop manual instructions, including hooking up an eye screw to attempt to support the weight of the outdrive. I was able to get the outdrive backed out approximately 0.5" at which point no amount of pulling and I hate to say some pry-barring would get it to permanently displace. It seems that the weight of the lower drive might be causing the assembly to bind up. It could also be that I lifted the motor too much and bent the coupler - at one point during the attempted motor extraction I lifted the entire assembly 3-4".
In any case, I am stuck and could use some advice on next steps. Here are the two schemes I've cooked up so far.
1:Support the sterndrive with a blocks from below, hook up 3 anchored cables (one to the central lifting eye, above the coupler....two below the coupler on either side of the outdrive housing), and use a come-along to winch the boat forward. I figure this minimizes the angular nature and therefore potential binding of attempting to swing away the outdrive from a fixed point chain-hoist. It has the drawback of loading the primary trailer hook and potentially sliding the boat off of the trailer.
2.Reassemble the outdrive nuts, dremel/cut off the remaining 1.8" shanks that protrude into the motor mount and attempt to slide out the motor.
Thoughts/feedback/suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
I wrote a while back about a Glastron 205GT with an overheated/vapor-locked VP 5.0GL motor that has sat for three years. I decided to buy it and am in the process of trying to bring it back to life.
I spent the past weekend trying to remove the motor with very little success. Initially I disassembled the motor mounts and tried to slide the motor out 6 inches; it did not want to slide out. I followed the Engine Remove/Install workshop manual**, hooked up the motor to an overhead chain hoist that I built, and a friend of mine and I pulled with all we had and it didn't seem to budge. Caveat: All four screws holding down the front engine mounts sheared off (despite tons of WD-40 and patience) and left 1/8" of the shank left protruding into the engine mounts. I had to lift the motor 1/8" to clear these shanks - maybe this was enough to cause the coupler to bind up and prevent the engine from sliding out? I spent the following day attempting to remove the SX outdrive to enable the motor to be lifted straight out. Again, I followed the workshop manual instructions, including hooking up an eye screw to attempt to support the weight of the outdrive. I was able to get the outdrive backed out approximately 0.5" at which point no amount of pulling and I hate to say some pry-barring would get it to permanently displace. It seems that the weight of the lower drive might be causing the assembly to bind up. It could also be that I lifted the motor too much and bent the coupler - at one point during the attempted motor extraction I lifted the entire assembly 3-4".
In any case, I am stuck and could use some advice on next steps. Here are the two schemes I've cooked up so far.
1:Support the sterndrive with a blocks from below, hook up 3 anchored cables (one to the central lifting eye, above the coupler....two below the coupler on either side of the outdrive housing), and use a come-along to winch the boat forward. I figure this minimizes the angular nature and therefore potential binding of attempting to swing away the outdrive from a fixed point chain-hoist. It has the drawback of loading the primary trailer hook and potentially sliding the boat off of the trailer.
2.Reassemble the outdrive nuts, dremel/cut off the remaining 1.8" shanks that protrude into the motor mount and attempt to slide out the motor.
Thoughts/feedback/suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
