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.

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.