tejastoolman
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2011
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- 36
alpha 1 gen 2 unit off a 3.0 merc...
put in all new seals, ujoints, cleaned everything in the upper to make sure it's contaminant free, lubed the bearings, yoke seal with the merc lube per the manual, rolling torque per the manual, had to try it 3 times to make sure I was doing it right, torqued on the bearing spanner nut. Then I noticed the drive shaft is really hard to turn using a bar thru the ujoint area. so I took it back down reassembled & torqued again and still seems really hard to turn, that's gotta take some hp from my little 4 banger...


?#1 is this normal or should it turn free/smooth like a differential on a std size pick up?
(even though the photo show it setting on a cluttered work bench
)
seems like it should be much more free turning by hand atleast some and not have to use a bar, but could be wrong you tube didn't have much that I could find so I had to come to the pro's here
put in all new seals, ujoints, cleaned everything in the upper to make sure it's contaminant free, lubed the bearings, yoke seal with the merc lube per the manual, rolling torque per the manual, had to try it 3 times to make sure I was doing it right, torqued on the bearing spanner nut. Then I noticed the drive shaft is really hard to turn using a bar thru the ujoint area. so I took it back down reassembled & torqued again and still seems really hard to turn, that's gotta take some hp from my little 4 banger...


?#1 is this normal or should it turn free/smooth like a differential on a std size pick up?
(even though the photo show it setting on a cluttered work bench
seems like it should be much more free turning by hand atleast some and not have to use a bar, but could be wrong you tube didn't have much that I could find so I had to come to the pro's here