TRS drive won't come off!!
#31
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Mine did the same exact thing. I sent you a pm. I had to pull my motor and tranny together then the drive slipped right off. No corrosion no rust, something was binding up still haven't figured out what the problem was.
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Work it in and out as much as possible. Push it in the drive and drop it on wood. Put smaller piece wood at the bottom studs for more leverage and repeat process. It took me about 2 hours to get mine off.
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A pure stab in the dark here, but have you loostened your two main tailstock bolts? In the past I've had to shim between the tailstock and inner transom plate portion of where the tailstock sits in order to get perfect allignment. If you dont have perfect allignment and the tailstock bolts are torqued down, that could put the input shaft on a major bind. Again, just a shot in the dark.
Where exactly around Deleware do you live?
Where exactly around Deleware do you live?
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you might want to check your motor mounts for sagging if it is grossly out of line it could be in a bind. also if it is a trs trans there is a spring on end of yoke ive seen them get hung up!!
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Here's a diagram of what your working with inside there.
http://www.perfprotech.com/mercruise...9/39?model=882
The shaft is supported entirely with in the tail stock by the rear bearing #14 and front bearing #13, and the splines engage in the coupler #6. With this in mind I couldn't see any way the shaft could be put in a bind due to the tailstock motor mounts. Then as the shaft comes out of the trans tailstock you have 2 sets of u-joints to accomadate any angle the drive may encounter, left-right-up-down.
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Rust on the shaft. If it were siezed I wouldn't think it woud come out at all.
Here's a diagram of what your working with inside there.
http://www.perfprotech.com/mercruise...9/39?model=882
The shaft is supported entirely with in the tail stock by the rear bearing #14 and front bearing #13, and the splines engage in the coupler #6. With this in mind I couldn't see any way the shaft could be put in a bind due to the tailstock motor mounts. Then as the shaft comes out of the trans tailstock you have 2 sets of u-joints to accomadate any angle the drive may encounter, left-right-up-down.
Here's a diagram of what your working with inside there.
http://www.perfprotech.com/mercruise...9/39?model=882
The shaft is supported entirely with in the tail stock by the rear bearing #14 and front bearing #13, and the splines engage in the coupler #6. With this in mind I couldn't see any way the shaft could be put in a bind due to the tailstock motor mounts. Then as the shaft comes out of the trans tailstock you have 2 sets of u-joints to accomadate any angle the drive may encounter, left-right-up-down.
Not saying this is the problem for the original poster. But it was on both sides of my Cigarette.
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Two sets of U joints do not change one centerline. The drive bolts to the gimble and the gimble is ultimately attached to the transom. The motor/trans/tailstock are not. I can tell you from experience that if the engine/trans/tailstock are not perfectly alligned with the gimble, then a TRS allignment tool will show it.
Not saying this is the problem for the original poster. But it was on both sides of my Cigarette.
Not saying this is the problem for the original poster. But it was on both sides of my Cigarette.
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A pure stab in the dark here, but have you loostened your two main tailstock bolts? In the past I've had to shim between the tailstock and inner transom plate portion of where the tailstock sits in order to get perfect allignment. If you dont have perfect allignment and the tailstock bolts are torqued down, that could put the input shaft on a major bind. Again, just a shot in the dark.
Where exactly around Deleware do you live?
Where exactly around Deleware do you live?
I haven't gotten totally agressive with this quite yet, just the prying and droping on a piece of wood wedge in between the gimbal housing and drive. I haven't used the rams or a come along so as far as I know I may not be persistant enough with it. This weekend will be my last chance, if I can't get it off then it's going to someone else, I don't have the knowledge, resources, or time to f with the tranny and motor.