I got some bad advice a while back about installing my transom asseblies with 5200 I sealed up the bolt holes with it on my TRS drives. I did not use any on the gasketsAnyone have any idea what my best course of action is to getting the transom assemblies off? I have a porta power that I figure that I could rig up some how but I am worried that it could damage the transom.

Jon

Boatersworld has some anti-bond adhesive de-bonder & remover..stock#376971016 for $9 that works pretty well.
Jim

Yep, adhesive remover will soften it but you still wont be able to pry your transom assembly off without taking gelcoat with it. Use putty knives to work your way around it.
BTW, Merc reccomends only the cork gasket. But on old transoms (TRS) there are usually irregularities, so I use silicon and the cork gasket.

I've heard of people using thin wire, like the stuff used to hang pictures on walls. Maybe you could take a 2-3 foot piece of wire and run it between the transom and assembly, back and forth kind of like a sawing motion ?

Might not work bad, window installers for cars use wire also for removal.

Cougarman

There is going to be very little on the outside of the transom. Maybe just a touch near the bolts. What I am worried about is the 5200 going all the way up the bolts....... I will try the softener but won't that just get the very outside area or does it penetrate? What about heat? I thought that if heat would work that I could make a heat sheild and warm up the bolts.

Jon

Jon, the studs on the assembly's should be bolted/threaded in.......you can try welding a nut on the end of the stud thats sticking into the engine compartment after you have taken the inner plates off then unscrew them and yank them out.....at that point there should be very little holding it onto the transom if the stud areas is the only place you did youse 5200....if not then the piano wire trick shold work for ya....

jon I heard of guys using piano wire to take k planes off that had 5200.

Wally good idea. What is the census on how hard those bolts will be to back out? These are 1980's TRS or something like that assemblies. I just do not want the bolts to break off. I guess if they do break off then I could drill them out as long I can get a punch in there? I would however rather not break them off as I want to sell the transom asseblies.

Jon

Hey man how ya been. I have not been on much as I used to be but how did your opertaion go? Hope they got it ok this time!!! I may have a little work for ya some time soon.

Jon