travisgoff
04-07-2007, 05:03 PM
I pulled the top cover off the drive, where the oil dipstick screws into, and there are two gears, and after I drained the oil; at the bottom of this compartment, there are pieces of those gears, actually I could say chunks of them, sitting down there.
I have another drive now, upper and lower, and they look the same, but how do I know if the ratio is correct? Can I count the the teeth on the gears in the upper, or is it something in the lower? Is there a way to identify if it will work on my boat?
Also the fin is cracked on the new lower, can I use a cold weld to fix it, or do I need to swap out the housing. I have not seperated the upper and the lower on my broke drive yet, so I am not sure if the lower is damaged or not, but my guess is that most likely there are problems down there as well with as bad as the upper gears are.
It also looks like the oil level might have been low, when I pulled the cover off, only half of the gear that connects to the u-joints was covered, but on the other drive, almost 3/4 or more is covered. Using the dipstick, it stilled showed oil, but it was below the line. I am thinking, or hoping, that this was what caused it to go bad, does anyone think that this might have been the case or am I grasping at straws?
Any help you guys can give me would be appreciated.
By the way, thanks for the oil filling help, I would have never known to start from the drain and work my way up. I am glad I learned this now, because Its not funny how expensive it can be to learn these things the wrong way.
-Travis
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I have another drive now, upper and lower, and they look the same, but how do I know if the ratio is correct? Can I count the the teeth on the gears in the upper, or is it something in the lower? Is there a way to identify if it will work on my boat?
Also the fin is cracked on the new lower, can I use a cold weld to fix it, or do I need to swap out the housing. I have not seperated the upper and the lower on my broke drive yet, so I am not sure if the lower is damaged or not, but my guess is that most likely there are problems down there as well with as bad as the upper gears are.
It also looks like the oil level might have been low, when I pulled the cover off, only half of the gear that connects to the u-joints was covered, but on the other drive, almost 3/4 or more is covered. Using the dipstick, it stilled showed oil, but it was below the line. I am thinking, or hoping, that this was what caused it to go bad, does anyone think that this might have been the case or am I grasping at straws?
Any help you guys can give me would be appreciated.
By the way, thanks for the oil filling help, I would have never known to start from the drain and work my way up. I am glad I learned this now, because Its not funny how expensive it can be to learn these things the wrong way.
-Travis
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