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Originally Posted by 8gv
Well that was fun...
I got a late start because my daughter's car quit and stranded her today.
New Rule: Only one broken machine at a time!
The pump is out of the boat and I did more stretching exercise today than I thought possible. I suspect my motion tomorrow will have a sound track of groans.
What started all this is the pully shaft and a bearing migrated out of the pump housing. The pully looks fine but will have to be removed from the shaft with, you guessed it, a puller.
I suppose it will then need to be pressed onto the new shaft of a new housing.
Hopefully the Mercruiser help line can steer me in the right direction on this.
The two hoses, red on top and black on the bottom, were not very long and as a result reaching their clamps was challenging. Reassembly will likely be much worse.
It looks like the impeller is undamaged so I won't need to go on a cooling system scavenger hunt for bits and pieces.
I hope to have this wrapped up this week.
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Sounds like the rebuild kit I recommended will be of no use to you, it replaces all the parts that are still good on your pump. Sad to say, you will need the more expensive parts of the pump that should have lasted much longer...
If you would like to try and rebuild the shaft, pulley and bearing part (the "nose housing") of your pump, I'd love to give it a go, just for the experience, I've never done one of those. I have all kinds of tools for this kind of work in my garage here in Raymond.