Re: lower unit removal 1984-? 25 HP Mercury

[David Stanton]

Hey Ben, Thanks for the reply! I looked at it again this morning and was about to post my follow up here below when you posted. Yes – you are remembering it right!

Ok, I got it! – I futzed with it a bit more after finding the exploded view in my original post above and found that parts 35 and 36 pried apart with a screwdriver without much effort once screw 37 was backed almost all the way out and then those parts separated from the shift rod once the pin in part 36 was not in the top of the shift rod anymore, and now the lower unit pulls out. Working in tight quarters , it’s going to be a bit f a challenge to get this back together. I had to pull parts 36 and 37 out with a elongated curved needlenose pliers, while keeping them from dropping down in the housing.

I also learned that this area was redesigned within the next few years to have a clip that pulls off to release the shift rod instead of these parts and the screw. They must have had a lot of complaints about these parts!

I’m going to replace screw 37 with one that is either hex head or allen-head to make it a lot easier to put back together.

Hopefully someone else here can benefit from my experience now.
Dave