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Eric, should I rebuild?

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Topic: Eric, should I rebuild?
Posted By: 2_Nautiques
Subject: Eric, should I rebuild?
Date Posted: October-21-2007 at 4:48pm
Eric,

I have been hearing what I believe is a bad damper plate on my 23' Cuddy, OMC 350 with a BW 1:1. I have read several posts and I have the engine in good tune, and the trans seem to operate fine. I get a nasty grinding noise at idle but it goes away just above idle.

I have brought the boat home for the season and yesterday pulled the trans out. I can not see any broken springs on the damper plate, there might be a slight bit of slop between the damper plate and the splines on the trans. The trans fluid looks dark maroon and smells OK. Before I pulled the trans out I ran the boat in the driveway and could hold the prop shaft with my bare hands.

What do you think, do I need to have you look at the trans while I have out or can I just replace the damper plate and be good to go?

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Posted By: eric lavine
Date Posted: October-22-2007 at 10:12am
I would say replace the damper, while the trans is out go through it and re-seal including internal seals, that way you are 100 percent sure there is not a problem in the trans. a bad damper will open the clutch teeth if it has been failing.
if you dont mind pulling transmissions just try the damper

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Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: October-22-2007 at 10:50am
Originally posted by 2_Nautiques 2_Nautiques wrote:


Before I pulled the trans out I ran the boat in the driveway and could hold the prop shaft with my bare hands.


I'm Confused! You could hold it and stop it? If so, then Eric does need to look at it!!

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Posted By: 2_Nautiques
Date Posted: October-22-2007 at 11:30am
Pete, I should have been more clear, while in neutral.

Eric, how busy are you? I really do not want to try this myself, I want to make certain that the trans. is OK because I do not want to have to pull it out again

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Posted By: eric lavine
Date Posted: October-22-2007 at 9:03pm
you'll get a little oil shear out of the water on the prop it will turn at times and alot also depends on forward clutch pack clearance, the true test is you should be able to hold the shaft at 1200 rpm's, being very careful,

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Posted By: 2_Nautiques
Date Posted: October-22-2007 at 9:14pm
Eric, shipped the trans. out this afternoon. You should see it tomorrow. Thanks for the help.

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Posted By: eric lavine
Date Posted: October-22-2007 at 9:43pm
Nice talikng to you, I'll be on a 440 Sea-ray tommorow, again this one is kicking my ass,Its a ZF630 v-drive and to get to the dripless seal set screws is almost impossible and it took me close to 2 hours to get them out but i should have it out tommorow by days end but I;ll be in the shop Wednesday and take a look at it

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Posted By: 2_Nautiques
Date Posted: October-23-2007 at 12:18pm
And I was complaining about pulling that little BW out of my C nautique. Can't imagine trying to work in one of those engine compartments, I know the 27' Sea Ray I owned was not very easy to access anything on. They ran hoses and wires across the only space to stand on. Good Luck

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Posted By: eric lavine
Date Posted: October-23-2007 at 7:30pm
I got back to the shop and looked at the tags, i new those bastards were heavy, it actually is a hsw800 v-drive, i lifted a bunch of the 630's and i knew something felt different when lifting these

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Posted By: 2_Nautiques
Date Posted: October-30-2007 at 9:14pm
Eric, There is a problem with the shipment of my trans. give me a call when you get time. 419-439-0669


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