I have taken on a project on a buds boat in exchange for some electical work in my house-
It's an '81 vintage 25 Evinrude, hasn't run in a year or two. Has fired with a new battery when the guy looked at it-
I am going to pull the lower and put an impeller or if need be an entire pump in it, and check out the lower. It's a shear pin type lower, I thought they went to thru hub exhaust in the late 70's but I guess they didn't.
Of course the cavitation plate has a big hunk broken out of it, and a crack on the other side, which I will get one of the welders I know at the local yacht repair yard to TIG up for me.
However, when I removed the bolts to drop the lower and unhooked the shift rod, no go. Oh, I can wiggle the leading edge of it back and forth, but she's stuck and I am certain all the bolts are out.
Now some years back my old 18 fast twin did the same thing, I ended up pulling/prying the foot off, and the pin in the driveshaft broke the water pump housing on it's way out. I had to pull the powerhead complete with shaft from the middle leg, then clamp the driveshaft in a vice with the powerhead hanging down below it, and put a box full of packing material to catch the falling power head. I PB blaster'ed the poo out of the end of the crankshaft where the driveshaft was stuck in it, hit it with some heat, and wailed on it with a big punch to separate it.
I will try a bit harder on this one, but think I will have to pull the motor off the boat it is on, stand it "on it's head" and spray PB blaster down the shaft via the shift rod hole with a nozzle on the can and hope it makes it into the union of the crank and driveshaft, let it soak a day or two.
Do y'all think that will work, or do I have another problem? I had one nut on a stud at the rear of the foot, and two small bolts with 3/8" wrench size heads on each side of the foot, and the shift rod coupler undone. I don't see anything else in the way.
It's an '81 vintage 25 Evinrude, hasn't run in a year or two. Has fired with a new battery when the guy looked at it-
I am going to pull the lower and put an impeller or if need be an entire pump in it, and check out the lower. It's a shear pin type lower, I thought they went to thru hub exhaust in the late 70's but I guess they didn't.
Of course the cavitation plate has a big hunk broken out of it, and a crack on the other side, which I will get one of the welders I know at the local yacht repair yard to TIG up for me.
However, when I removed the bolts to drop the lower and unhooked the shift rod, no go. Oh, I can wiggle the leading edge of it back and forth, but she's stuck and I am certain all the bolts are out.
Now some years back my old 18 fast twin did the same thing, I ended up pulling/prying the foot off, and the pin in the driveshaft broke the water pump housing on it's way out. I had to pull the powerhead complete with shaft from the middle leg, then clamp the driveshaft in a vice with the powerhead hanging down below it, and put a box full of packing material to catch the falling power head. I PB blaster'ed the poo out of the end of the crankshaft where the driveshaft was stuck in it, hit it with some heat, and wailed on it with a big punch to separate it.
I will try a bit harder on this one, but think I will have to pull the motor off the boat it is on, stand it "on it's head" and spray PB blaster down the shaft via the shift rod hole with a nozzle on the can and hope it makes it into the union of the crank and driveshaft, let it soak a day or two.
Do y'all think that will work, or do I have another problem? I had one nut on a stud at the rear of the foot, and two small bolts with 3/8" wrench size heads on each side of the foot, and the shift rod coupler undone. I don't see anything else in the way.
