Lost drive and reverse

Rob Hazel said:
Sounding more and more like the coupler and to make matters worse, I can't get it into the shop till next week and probably will take a few days after that before I get it back. Crap, there goes half of Aug....
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any independent marine mechanics in the area?.....they may be able to work you in sooner than the marina.....any compotent marine mechanic should be able to do this job as long as they have the ability to pull the engine out of the boat.....

cliff
 
I pulled my motor (coupling replacement) at a rack and stack storage place. Put in a work rack and tipped the forklift driver $50...took around 4 - 6 hours as I recall. It was a few years ago, but was a simple process.
 
Henry Boyd said:
It seems kind of odd to me that the engine coupling would fail at basically idle speed. Makes me wonder if it is a clutch or lower shift cable issue. If the clutch failed and disengaged and only partially re-engaged when shifted into gear it might exhibit the systems Rob is experiencing.

Henry
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I had my coupler go out 3 years ago coming into a fuel dock at idle it sounded just like OP said rpms went up a bit then a whirling sound from the coupler rotating around the drive shaft, stripped all the splines off the coupler, we had just been going down a waterway for 1 mile in a no wake zone. I was really surprised it happened at idle speed but we were just heading up North it could have been a 20 mile tow back in instead of 1 mile.
 
Crap never even thought about that, Thanks.
While I have a few expert opinions , what would anyone recommend for a decent inverter?
 
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Rob Hazel said:
Crap never even thought about that, Thanks.
While I have a few expert opinions , what would anyone recommend for a decent inverter?
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We recommend you start another thread for a totally different topic... you will still get many "expert opinions". :smt001
 
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