The best tool for removing Ratchet, Starter part # 22680
is Mercury Service Tool M-60-557 Starter Ratchet Wrench
as shown on page # 25 of Mercury Service Tool Catalog
posted in Old Iron part of this site.
Lacking the specific tool, you will have to pad a pipe wrench,
jam rope into cylinder thru spark plug opening
and keep in mind Righty Tighty, Leffy Loosey…
I have sometimes found Mercury Service Tools at
club swap meets. Once bought a bucket of the
clamps used on 6 cylinder engines….found I had
no use for them and sold them bucket and all
at another meet for the same dirt cheap price
I paid and had to enlist a trusted member to
assure buyer the tools were what he needed
and I was not a crook.
There are some Mercury Service Tools with a simple
work around and others where the Service Tools are
VERY nice to have.
Louis
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