Pruno
Seaman
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2019
- Messages
- 62
While working a separate with the shift interrupter not engaging as it should, I pulled the drive off to replace the shift lever and found water in the shift pocket. So it’s time to change out the bushings. It’s an Alpha one Gen one (I can get S/N in the morning if it matters). If memory serves me correctly, I thought I read on here that it is possible and recommended to change it over to the gen II style? Or am I misremembering that to something else? Any words of wisdom to press the old ones out and new ones in? I think merc has a special tool for that, but my tool box does not. Also, the parts diagram makes it hard to tell if there should be a washer and/or other oil seal in there. Mine had nothing else as I pulled it apart - just the shift shaft and shift lever.
Twice now I’ve had an issue of zero water coming out of exhaust or relief ports while running on muffs. The first time I disassembled all hoses transom to to engine and to exhaust to try and narrow down where the issue lay. Was about to pull and split drive and I thought I’d try running engine one more time. Lo and behold Water! Had it on the lake all last week no temp issues. Fast forward to today, running engine on trailer and no water - zero, the intake side of hose was very warm all the way down to the bell housing. Already have the drive off, gonna split it tomorrow and check impeller. I have another hose I’ll put on too. I failed to measure the hose that I put on this spring worried there might be a kink. I can feel what seems to be the beginning of a kink but not a fold. Where else to check? I would think if the impeller went tango uniform that would be a hard fail, but I’ll check anyway.
Matt
Twice now I’ve had an issue of zero water coming out of exhaust or relief ports while running on muffs. The first time I disassembled all hoses transom to to engine and to exhaust to try and narrow down where the issue lay. Was about to pull and split drive and I thought I’d try running engine one more time. Lo and behold Water! Had it on the lake all last week no temp issues. Fast forward to today, running engine on trailer and no water - zero, the intake side of hose was very warm all the way down to the bell housing. Already have the drive off, gonna split it tomorrow and check impeller. I have another hose I’ll put on too. I failed to measure the hose that I put on this spring worried there might be a kink. I can feel what seems to be the beginning of a kink but not a fold. Where else to check? I would think if the impeller went tango uniform that would be a hard fail, but I’ll check anyway.
Matt
