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May 23, 2015 at 9:48 am
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You actually have to use LESS force on the dark side. Mercurys do not tolerate hammer mechanics as well as OMCs do. Be patient and think, before doing anything.
I, too, just spin the impellers in by hand. No big deal as long as the shaft is not rusty. As for compression, Mercury made a special, tiny compression gauge that wasn’t much bigger than a spark plug; so again, this is no problem either. Some guys have rope sheaves off other motors, that they put on the 4.5 flywheels with long screws into the flywheel puller holes, to do these tests.
Long live American manufacturing!