prop shaft oil seal

[woodnknots]

I went to replace my prop shaft oil seal, and found that I need a special tool to remove a retaining ring before I can get to it. Tracker marine quoted me $90 for the tool, and said that if I wanted them to do it, it would cost about as much, but I can't get in till early July. No dice there, because I'll be out on workups getting ready for deployment.

The tool is a bearing carrier retaining ring wrench, does anyone know anywhere local to me (carrollton/hampton/norfolk, va) that I can get one or borrow one that's not going to cost me an arm and a leg? Or is there something else I can use? I tried using a transfer punch and mallet, but that looks like a dead end. The book says I might have to hit it with a torch if it's seized, so I think that if that's the case, I'm gonna need something better than a screwdriver and a hammer.

Thanks for the help,
Dave

 

[steelespike]

Re: prop shaft oil seal

What model are you working on?
You might try for a tool at an industrial supply house where you buy bearings and seals etc.You may have to bring in the gearcase.

 

[woodnknots]

Re: prop shaft oil seal

What model are you working on?
You might try for a tool at an industrial supply house where you buy bearings and seals etc.You may have to bring in the gearcase.

It's a 1990 90HP Force. I'm doing everything I can to keep from removing the lower unit. I may end up taking it somewhere to have it done, eventually, if I can't come up with the tool myself.

 

[johnp34]

Re: prop shaft oil seal

woodnknots-I have a 1988 50HP and I removed the lower unit and it looks like the shaft seal and shift rod seal are leaking. When you say you don't want to remove the lower unit - do you mean split the two halves of the lower unit? I am facing the same thing. Do you have to pull the drive shaft out of the lower unit once it's off and then get a tool to remove the seal?