Any Tool guys up here
#21
pulled all of these off the net to help see what I am talking about. All the pics of this guys propshaft and coupler is out of the boat so very simple to remove the coupler and its allen boat and its nut. The pics should help but think about all of that under the V drive and coming thru the hull like I posted above. You have to remove the coupler to remove the propshaft. When these V drive boats impact something in the water even the props are mother F ers to get off. the propshafts get bent and all of that has to be replaced.
Look at the all the pics in the guys posts. Not easy when installed in the boat and no room plus impact damage has twisted all that. Hence why a socket set does not work.
https://forum.moomba.com/showthread....oupler-Removal
Look at the all the pics in the guys posts. Not easy when installed in the boat and no room plus impact damage has twisted all that. Hence why a socket set does not work.
https://forum.moomba.com/showthread....oupler-Removal
Last edited by BUP; 02-01-2017 at 11:30 PM.
#24
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Might just be quicker and easier in the long run to pull the engine and have free access, but assume you know this already. Or find a midget with small hands and big arms, lol!
edit , after going back and reading more of that some said they remove the 6 vdrive bolts and slide it out of the way for added access.
edit , after going back and reading more of that some said they remove the 6 vdrive bolts and slide it out of the way for added access.
Last edited by buck35; 02-02-2017 at 10:27 AM.
#25
Too pull the engine you still have the unbolt the propshaft coupler from the tranny coupler so if you can do that then in most cases can do the rest of the removal. Also if you ever had to realign all that end, Motor / transmission / V drive and so on, that can be very time consuming. To pull out the complete package for 99 % in very current V drive apps is not a half days work by yourself. It is very time consuming.
I hear everyone about hating wakeboard boats but if you were in the boat biz inland areas its basically what keeping real repair shops and dealerships open with service and boat sales. The sportboat crowd works on their boats and sportboats have zero sales hence why there is not that many 100 % performance only dealerships anymore. But there is 100 % wakeboard dealers only as that's all they work on and sell without lack of business problems. The same for Pontoon dealerships thats all they do all day long and both are making great money at it.
With that said when in Rome I have to do what the Romans are doing.
I hear everyone about hating wakeboard boats but if you were in the boat biz inland areas its basically what keeping real repair shops and dealerships open with service and boat sales. The sportboat crowd works on their boats and sportboats have zero sales hence why there is not that many 100 % performance only dealerships anymore. But there is 100 % wakeboard dealers only as that's all they work on and sell without lack of business problems. The same for Pontoon dealerships thats all they do all day long and both are making great money at it.
With that said when in Rome I have to do what the Romans are doing.
Last edited by BUP; 02-02-2017 at 10:26 AM.
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Are the coupler bolts the issue or is it the large nut to the propshaft? If not the coupler bolts an air ratch would be the ticket for those , and one poster suggested loosening the shaft nut and using a socket as a pusher and retighten coupler to pust it free of the shaft. Sounds like a pia no matter how you slice it.
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