Re: Need Help Removing Elgin Impeller

[frankr]

OK, let me begin this with a minor comment. stxray, you referred to the 25133 "Motor Leg" as the "lower unit" several times. That confused me as I read it. To my thinking, that part is an "exhaust housing". To Elgin’s thinking, and many others, it is a "motor leg". It really doesn’t make any difference what we call it, just as long as we all understand and are all on the same page.

So, what we have here is the 136060-1 water pump housing’s upper end is trapped between the 25125 coupling, and the 25065-1 impeller. The shaft can’t come down because the coupling bangs against the pump housing. And you can’t pull it out the top because the impeller can’t slide off the bottom of the lower shaft. I guess this is described as between a rock and a hard place.

If the lower shaft splines refuse to release from the coupling as they are supposed to, then it seems to me that RPSIII has the only solution, which is cut it off below the impeller, then pull the powerhead and retrieve the shaft from the top. Obviously, you will need a replacement lower shaft.

Thanks mumbles for the diagram. I searched through all my stuff and couldn’t find a picture.