Drive wont back on
 

just fitted a HP gimble and bell new G bearing /stainless steel swivel pin ,bellows the hole nine yards ,now i cant get the drive back on ,wont go the last inch , it just rocks on the center studs . i dont have a alignment tool will the input shaft on my spare upper work if i take it off . i have heard you can ajust bearing but i am sure i have nocked bearing back s far as it will go so how do you tweak the bearing ? This is a Pantera it has solid offshore mounts i dont think the motor has move . Thanks for any help

Need an alignment tool.

Where are you located?

Hopefully someone will have one local

Your gimble bearing just needs to be aligned . The spare shaft will not give you any leverage to move the bearing . See if you can borrow rent or buy the tool .

Shell out 30 bucks and buy one from whoya. He's got a lot of other good tools as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAVO-ALPHA-...item41564b4b02

Second that, got mine from him.

Thanks guys i live in England not too many Merc/mec around here probley take me a week to hunt one down .
since posting i did look up Gimble bearing alignment , think i have got it now ,didnt know the inner part of the bearing swiveled round . Thanks again guys . paul

Ok drive back on after i got hold of a alignment bar from a mer /shop just down the road from me real nice guy just lent it to me Get a load of this , The first place i went to said i didnt need a alignment tool after i explained what i wanted to do , he said only need alignment tool if motor has moved ,dont need one if i have just replaced Gimble bearing , He said he has been working on brvos 20 years just ram it in and give it a good kick , i tried to explain about the eyeball being out of line but he was not haveing any of it . i left his shop sharpish won't be takeing anything to him to fix .

Yeah.......don't want him working on my boat !!!!

the o ring on the shaft can cause the same crap, makes it hard to slide back on.ive had the same thing happen and just to check pulled the o rings off the shaft and she went right on, so I put them back on and backed that sob into a wall they slid all the way on then.:evilb:

just kindin, greased the o rings and cussed and wiggled the drive till it slid in where I got the nuts on the equally tightend them down.

Thanks for the replys , i new it wasnt the seals as i have a spare upper with no seals on the shaft and that woulnt go in , plus i could tell it was something solid stoping it going in the last inch .

i kinda have the same problem Installed complete new transom assy went to install engines with gil offshore mounts and one engine lines up perfect and the other is not. not sure what could have changed.

Those o-rings are a b*tch sometimes!!!

Have you ever tried to give a cat a bath? Well, Bravo's do the same thing when you try to put them behind some HP.

I just did some Bravo work too. Everything goes back ok until the last inch. LOL put the thing in gear, slap on a prop and turn the driveshaft, Universal) a bit, move the drive back in as you turn or nodge the driveshaft. The drive shaft teeth needs to align with the engine (female) groves. The reason it won't go back since the teeth are not the same alignment as you took them off. no biggie, just be gentle.

Yes that can sometimes be the case if you have not changed the Gimble /B , but if the Eyeball is off from what was in there when you removed drive that thing will never go back on no matter how hard you ram it in . The eyeball has to be lined up with the splines on the motor .