Foul you can do it with one hole and not two. You slide a wrench from the inside of the transome on one side of the bolt then you drill the hole for the socket on the other side. I have also gotten to these bolts to do it with out the the holes from the inside on a TRS set up. It takes time but if you have a fine toothed wratchet it works. Not sure if the Bravo set up is the same or not??? Another trick I use to get the pin out of the top on the TRS drives is to take out the grease fitting on top of the drive and you can use a long narrow punch to drive it down. Good luck with the search.

Jon

Mike,
I did this on my old boat.. pull the drive and lift the engine a couple of inches..then slide it forward enough to reach the nuts to undo the transom assy.. we had silent choice and were able to do it..
Or drill the holes..


Good luck man.. sorry I am not in town I could show you what needs to be done..

Dick

Mike I have a used Bravo transom assy. for sale, cheap. If you are interested give me a call 396-8386. Ask for Luther.

Waterfoul, here is a link to a pdf file for the instructions out of the manual:

http://www.raymondbaldwin.com/bell-gimble.pdf

It is 2.41Mb in size. It has the removal instructions for the bellhousing and gimble ring. Note this manual is for 2000+ year but older ones are very similar.

I forgot the template for the drilling:

http://www.raymondbaldwin.com/template.pdf

Make sure you print it at 100%

Mike lets put your motor in my boat and go !!!just kidding get those wrenches back out!!!I'm getting sick of it though!

Re: Need to replace my gimbal ring....how??
 

THis is a really old post but I just found it and if anyone is still monitoring this thread I am wondering if the method can be used on a alpha drive, The gimble bearing fell apart and pretty much destroyed every thing in its path, The guy doing the work says the engine has to come out of the boat to replace the gimbal ring.

Re: Need to replace my gimbal ring....how??
 

Hey Jay...

before you lost your gimble, what were the symptoms?

Re: Need to replace my gimbal ring....how??
 

I bought the boat like this The symptoms were, the boat shook and rattled so badly I thought the outdrive was about to come off, I drove it for 2 hours before I bought it and it didnt happen, but the next day it started as soon as I backed away from the ramp. I saw the outdrive come off and the gimble bearing came out in peices.The man I bought the boat from has offered to pay half for the repair but that still hurts my wallet, I hauled the boat 200 miles away because thats as close as I could get to a mechanic that could get to it and have it back to me by the 4th. The ring the drive bellows attatches to is cracked in 2 places, He said he may be able to fix it with a tig welder but if not the gimble ring needs to be replaced and the motor has to come out of the boat to do that. I cant afford that even with the other guy paying half because I am also having the drive rebuilt.
I am just wondering if there is another option for an alpha drive other than pulling the motor.

Re: Need to replace my gimbal ring....how??
 

Damn, I saw this post, and thought Waterfoul was running again! :eek: