Reply To: Intermittently stuck motor

[ShortyLaVen]

Don wrote:

Cool, glad you have a replacement gearcase! Make sure the gear lube is relatively clean and water free while draining the old lube….Make sure there is one and only one seal washer on each drain/fill screw… The unit must be filled from the bottom up, don’t attempt to fill it from the top hole…Do not remove that little phillips screw in the skeg or the shift linkage will fall apart inside….

I’ll be sure to get some seals for the drain/fill plugs. Just looking at them I think I have some plastic fittings for bench bleeding master cylinders that would work good for bottom-up filling the gear case.

I also found a big crack in the old gearcase right near the drain plug. That explains why it was low on oil LOL!!