I have removed all steering components to engine. The tiller tube is corroded and rusted . I have a new one on the way, but want to be sure if it's o k to "knock out" the old tube without screwing something else up. Engine is 1989 evinrude 150.
I have to take the engine off the boat? The tube is about half way out, but I stopped messing with it because I wasn't sure if engine needed to be supported when I get the tube out. Thanks
Well it certainly needs to be supported somehow. I always removed it from the transom and left it hang from the hoist as I worked on the tube. I suppose it would be possible to support the weight from the hoist while leaving it bolted to the transom, but have never tried it that way.
Perhaps you could drive the new tube in and let it push the old one out, thereby never turning it "loose" from the brackets. I've never tried it that way either. Any motors I ever tackled were salt water corroded and took some violence to get apart.
Thanks. Motor has never been in salt water. Like I mentioned before, I've knocked it out some, but tube is still thru the brackets. I stopped knocking it out, I was unsure if motor would "fall",( for the lack of a better word). I could probably hook cherry picker just to take the weight off of tube. I appreciate your help.
Well it certainly needs to be supported somehow. I always removed it from the transom and left it hang from the hoist as I worked on the tube. I suppose it would be possible to support the weight from the hoist while leaving it bolted to the transom, but have never tried it that way.
Perhaps you could drive the new tube in and let it push the old one out, thereby never turning it "loose" from the brackets. I've never tried it that way either. Any motors I ever tackled were salt water corroded and took some violence to get apart.
I have to take the engine off the boat? The tube is about half way out, but I stopped messing with it because I wasn't sure if engine needed to be supported when I get the tube out. Thanks
Boobie... I assume he is speaking of the tilt/steering tube, the one that the engine swings up and down on and also has the steering cable leading thru it, unless his rig has dual steering cables such as equipped on many bass boats.
O k. I will remove engine, probably would have had to when installing new steering cable. Yes, one of the steering cables run thru tube. Thanks for the help.
Oh' by the way , there was a kit out there at one time that let you change that tube with out pulling the motor. OMC may have built it. I remember somebody doing with the boat still in the water.
