SSM 3 what tranny to use
 

Hi Im on my way to put the boat together..I have a Bam tranny with tailstocks and an old one without..the driveshaft is to short for the nice Bam transmission, can i remove the tailstock.. enginge is mounted on 4 racing plates, so I guess the tranny dont need to "hang" on the inside transom.Or should I extend the driveshaft..used to run bravos,thats why Im asking all this..Do I mount the tranny on the engine and then install together..Thanks for the input

Swap the tailstock from the boat anchor onto the bam. The tail on the bam is for a trs.

^^^ What he said. You'll need gasket # 27-47903

http://www.mercruiserparts.com/bam/s.../31383/2046/29

You guys are simply the best,wauw ..thanks for your time to help ..might ask a little more later ..big smile from Denmark

ssm3 tranny problem
 

HI Guys, I was told I could just swap tailstock,but as you can see in the pics its not the same.The tail from old tranny does not fit in the Bam..what should I do..
Thanks Again
Leif

does the tailstock not fit the BAM tranny, or does it fit, but output shaft is different length? cuz the output shaft looks longer on the shorter tail trans, while shaft looks shorter on the TRS longer tail trans. and obvious next question; how much doing to change output shafts? edit; it looks in my velvet drive manual that the output shaft is the pinion carrier assy and is essentially a large part of the trans itself. and, unless I am seeing it incorrectly, the trans has to be disassembled out the front of the trans case and the shaft swapped. I am unsure if any re-shimming will be involved with this job. are you sure the correct trans is bad? those cases can get really ugly and have good internals in them. if you don't trust yourself to tear 2 apart and make 1, there are 2 choices. send them both to BAM or another of the very few people who work on these, or put the tailstock on and install it and see if it is good. one will cost a bit of labor money. the other is a coin toss...oh yeah. shipping from Denmark. there is a downloadable manual for the velvet drive if you do a little googleing. I think mine was free.

That shaft comes out. You just need to swap the shafts over

Ha ha Guys,thanks Again..Mild Thunder how easy is it to make that swap or should I just install the old ones there were running before as dereknkathy wrote.have to have runni9ng by july 1 or I Loose my 100 dollar bet..smile

A rubber mallet . That shaft is just an extension that is slid over the splines on the trans main shaft. Back when i did this swap, it took about 20 minutes removing the trs tailstick, trs coupler shaft, and installing ssm coupler shaft and tailstock.

Ooohh I love OSO..big smile and thanks..will try that first thing in the morning..let you know..
b regards
Leif

stuff like that doesn't show in the manual since it wasn't TRS specific. so, one could also put these shaft extensions and housings on a shaft boat borg?

take the short tail off the doner trans.. including the bearing and shaft assembly, also remove same from TRS use the gasket Joe mentioned and reinstall the short (#3) tail shaft and bearing into the cover then install onto transmission... not a difficult job, just make sure splines line up and gasket surfaces are clean...