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May 1, 2019 at 5:56 pm
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It’s a standard length shaft. I wonder if the drive shaft may have been replaced with another or the spring in the gearcase is allowing too much downward movement of the shaft??? This is so frustrating. No wonder Bill Fischer got fed up with it and sent it away from his shop! If he couldnt fix it how will I? We will pull it apart again and see what happened when we ran it today. Next step is to put a liquid gasket between lower unit and exhaust shroud and see if the water will make it up the water tube. I think I needed to gasket seal the under side of plate to isolate the channels better.