Re: 1986 Mercury 9.9 Tiller

[David Stanton]

quote BillW:

For the big nut, I jam a screw driver down between the housing and a flat of the big nut, pull the tiller down, take out the driver, lift the tiller up, jam the driver in again, pull the tiller down….like you’re human ratchet, until the nut is off. A pain but it works better than you might think.

Yeah – that’s how I loosened it a couple turns to see the casting threading into it was cracked. I was hoping there was a better way, but I can live with that.
Dave