Thanks for the info, Baekmo - I'll certainly take a look at CDK's thread, but I think the sensible solution is to fit a new sterndrive... Out of...
Thanks for the advice, Matt. Paul
Hello, I'm looking for some advice on jet-drives - I've been reading up on them for a while, looking at various installations and trawling...
Thanks for that - I think you're right... All the best, Paul
Hello, I have a 19ft boat with an OMC Sterndrive (a 1970's Type II) and a GM 3.0 130HP petrol engine (from about 1988). A couple of years...
Thanks for that :) It doesn't look good though, does it? :( I think I can see how the oil is getting into the impeller housing (or how the...
Hello, thanks for that. After some persuasion, I managed to remove the bearing housing from upper gear case: [IMG] There's oil...
I do...which makes me wonder what it was screwing into...I guess the dipstick must have been holding the sheered stub in place! Until today, I...
It's an electric (electromagnetic) shift unit. Somebody suggested to me that the cable might be the source of the oil leak, as the seal it goes...
Thanks for that :) Is it likely that a seal higher up the driveshaft has failed? I still have cable steering, as the exhaust housing plate...
What does it all mean? Hello, So I stripped down my sterndrive leg and, pretty much I as suspected, it looks like a load of mechanical bits...
Hello, thanks for the info! I've been trying to find somebody willing to work on it for me and nobody will touch it with a barge-pole :(...
Hello, I've taken the leg off today (which came off incredibly easily!) and now have it in the back of my van... I'm in two minds...
Hello, yes, I thought they might be talking about a different drive - the Stringer 400/800 definitely has the waterpump at the join between...
Considering the state the pivots etc are in, I'll go with that!
That's what it looks like to me, too, but the manual insists you take the leg off the drive...
That's what these chaps willing to have a look at it for me said they'd do. I started taking the leg off yesterday...in the rain...in the dark...
Hello, thanks for your advice. A broken upper seal seems most likely to me considering what you say - the previous owner told me he'd...
:) Thanks for that - admittedly, I haven't yet checked the oil (or what's left of it) in the leg, as night had decended upon me by that point...
Hello, I'm rather hoping somebody can offer some advice or words or wisdom here... About a year ago, I bought a Shetland 570 with an inboard...
