Reply To: Gifted Engines _What to do?

[Tom Alexander]

Hi again Kerry: Hope I’m not boring you with the updates of what is happening with my Johnson RDSL 21B. Today I got the gear case split and the shaft with its gears etc taken out. I found the frozen driveshaft is that the piñon gear won’t turn. Frozen solid. I suspect that some water got by the seal below the water pump and came down the drive shaft and froze the bearing to the gear and Gear-case Assembly. I am sure that Johnson made a tool for removing this but I don’t have it. My fix was going to be to remove the seal below the water pump and the bushing (parts #22, oil retainer and #23 bushing) from their position to give me room and access to fab a driver or puller to work the Pinion bearing-upper, thrust washer-upper, pinion thrust bearing, thrust washer-lower,pinion bearing-lower and pinion gear itself, parts 32,36, 37, 38, 39 and 40 respectiely. That was the plan until late this afternoon I found that the oil retainer won’t come out and the bushing under it won’t move with taps from a hammer thru a rod placed on the edge of the bearing with the rod going through the splined hole in the pinion gear. At this stage I have started to cold chisel the oil retainer out being VERY careful. No luck yet continue tomorrow unless you or somebody has a better idea. I am hoping. I am using a very small cold chisel that I diamond sharp and the steel of the oil retainer is proving to be resistive. I have the pinion gear resting in a puddle of OB Blaster for the night. I see in the ‘Red Book’ a tool that the red book says is for motors just prior to mine, the RS 19 series. Makes me wonder because it is a threaded tool that goes through the hole in the pinion gear and has ‘hooks’ to catch the under side of all the pieces (I guess) then a ‘bridge is put across the flat gear case surfaces and a nut is wound down onto the bridge and tightened to extract the whole works. At this point I think I have to proceed with trying to get the oil retainer and bushing that live under the water pump out in order to work on getting the gear and frozen bits and pieceds out. I”ve put a few pics with this, they should be self explanatory. The components on the shaft look in very good condition relative to what I was expecting to find. Thanks Tom