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Chris- p’s good suggestion reminded me of a recent "impeller" experience. Pulled the lower apart on a found 12HP Gale Buccaneer to replace the pump impeller. When re- installing the lower unit, you know the drill, line up the water tube, line up the shift rod and engage the drive shaft spline into the power head. Doing this by myself, I couldn’t get to the flywheel to do the slight rotation to align the shaft splines…. so I gave prop shaft a slight turn, and bolted it home. Latter that evening, recounting my procedure the thought occurred that I may have inadvertently rotated the pump impeller in the wrong direction. Next day I pulled the unit again and opened the pump… sure enough, two of the vanes were wrapped around backwards. Lesson learned… keep ALL rotation going in the correct (usually clock-wise) direction.
Joe B