Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

[bluebrownie]

Re: Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

when you say gear case... does that mean the "lower unit" does it usually come all intact and ready to merely marry with the upper unit... i have dropped my lower unit on other motors...or is it just the exterior case/housing...and he'd take the old gears etc. and put them in?

 

[bktheking]

Re: Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

Just the housing my friend is all you need , $1200 seems to be a gearcase price. Of course the guts of the gearcase will need to be swapped. Or- you could always put the screw back in and have someone tig weld it in place with plate, of course this is temp until you change the case out- opinions???? What do you have to lose at this point???

 

[Fisherball]

Re: Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

The LU comes out as 1 piece but if it has to be opened to get to the cradle it'll need all new seals. If you need a new casing it's hard to say if he'd switch the gears into yours or just sell you a rebuilt LU. $1,200.00 sounds like a good price for a rebuilt LU. I've had problems that I was able to solve with mine but I checked cost of a rebuilt one & found $1,600.00 plus shipping of both the new to me & my old one as a core. I have a '81 70 hp Johnson.

It's a drag if you need to do that to yours if there was nothing wrong with it to start with. You would end up with a brand new LU in perfect condition.

Are you able to make the vacation?

 

[bluebrownie]

Re: Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

ok... what do you think of this...supposed to leave tomorrow...for my trip... is there a way to somehow seal the screw in there as is... caulk it in, seal it somehow...as a temp fix until i get back...? and that'd allow me some time to make up my mind about what i am gonna do... with the pin thru there properly, should it shift into forward, reverse neutral normally... i wonder about eh other end of the screw sort of just sitting in there un seated... but IF the screw is secured somehow...maybe it'd work for the next 5 days that i am on vacay thoughts?????

 

[restornator]

Re: Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

i personally wouldn't take that motor out any farther than i am willing to paddle back to teh ramp

 

[bktheking]

Re: Shift cradle screw stripped...help..going on vacation tomorrow night!!!!

That screw has to be stable, I wouldn't try to seal or caulk it- it hold the shift cradle- it will come out. Short of welding something to keep in place you need a used housing that isn't stripped or a heli which may not work.