well yanked the drives today and will remove ghimbals to morow for rebuild
found out today needed a special tool for pivot pin rmoval its cheap from merc but since I want to do this tommorrow I will fab one at work
\bell housing already has the mercury kit installed for removing gimbal while engine is in palce any thing else I should watch for
Snow slowed me down a little today

I just use a 1/2",9/16" or 5/8" (I forget) allen wrench I cut off to fit in a socket to torque when reinstalled. never any problems.

just had my first glitch I had thought of doing that but these are the hp pins has a threaded hole down the center an two small srews that seem to hold it on my clymer manual just has old style

its part #10 in this view

http://www.mercruiserparts.com/Show_...Steering+Lever

dont know how thwy come out now I was thinking of a bolt down center and pull out but this maks no sence

On my HPs, they come right out after removing the two screws. Be sure to locktight those screws when it goes back together.

ok will give that a wirl

Spanner wrench would take that off if needed.

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