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| Author: | UteMachine [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
I am tired of paying $500 for the boat shop to do the start of the season work on my Horizon. Does anybody have a good DIY for this or recommend a good manual? The only part that worries me is pulling the bottom of the drive off and greasing that thing up like I've seen the mechanic do. Am I getting in over my head? 1996 200 Horizon w/ 313 hours. |
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| Author: | captwalt [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
if your a bit handy and have the right tools for the job then it can be done. There are more than a dozen threads on these tasks on the board. do you have a checklist that is done for those 500 bucks? |
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| Author: | 07H200SS [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
In my expierence the drive doesn't need to be pulled every year. Maybe just every other. Of course my boat has all sealed no greasable bearings and u-joints back there. |
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| Author: | UteMachine [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
I did a search but a couldn't find a DIY on it. Could you post a link or two? As far as what they do, basic oil change, plugs, grease everything up, usually an impellar every year, but I do see the bottom of the drive off everytime and that's the one spot that makes me nervous. I think I am mechanically inclined, I do all of my own work on my dirtbikes but boats is something I have always been a bit tenative to tackle. |
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| Author: | LouC [ Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
I'd get a factory shop manual and learn the right way from the start....that's what I do with all my vehicles and when I got this boat some years back I had never worked on marine engines...first year I winterized it myself...had a shop do some needed work on the drive and fuel system...but after that I have tuned it up, R+R'd the drive and gotten it ready for each season and winterized it each season. I feel the shop manual is a good investment and I build a drive stand with casters to make pulling and installing the drive easy. Saves me a good 300 each fall and 4-500 each spring. But, I do buy all my parts at the shop that did the intial work for me...so I keep up a relationship with them if I need something fixed that I can't handle... |
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| Author: | werv2go [ Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
Agree with LouC get a manual and it's fairly simple. I pulled mine for the first time this year (I'm definitely not a marine mechanic), but the process is fairly straight forward and my manual was step by step instructions. Taking the drive off, putting on, greasing the gimbal bearing, changing the exhaust and ujoint bellows are fairly easy. If you are going to change the gimbal bearing you will need a puller and one other piece of equipment is an alignment tool. I downloaded my manual for my SX drive off the internet for free and it tells you all the tools, grease etc that you will need to pull and service your drive. |
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| Author: | LouC [ Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: DIY maintainence & dewinterizing |
If I remember right there were manuals you could download over in the IO forum at iboats.com..... The first thing I did when I got the old '88 was to get a factory OMC manual which were still available then...and it tells you how to do everything with nice photos, etc. One thing I'll add...when people start to talk about winterizing...is not to try to take shortcuts and use those suck the antifreeze up the drive kits...because the thermostat may not open all the way on a cool fall day...and you can wind up with a block/heads with very little AF and mostly water in it...which can crack in cold temps! Most of the AF can wind up going out the exhaust using that method. If you want to use AF the best way is to drain everything manually and then back fill through the hoses...I got that from the OMC manual and have used it every year since...I feel it's better than just draining because it keeps the air out which reduces corrosion. |
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