Boat tools

[lewis]

Thought I'd check here before I purchased one. Looking for a gimbal bearing alignment tool. Anyone got one I could borrow?

 

[rholbrook]

Thought I'd check here before I purchased one. Looking for a gimbal bearing alignment tool. Anyone got one I could borrow?

Save yourself the headache and pay to have it done. I did my own once and will never do it again. If you have never done one, prepare to wrestle with it for a while. The actual removal of the drive and pulling the bearing and putting the bearing back in is the easy part. The alignment is the hard part. Freds Marine in Layton charges right around $300 parts and labor. Money well spent. If you do tackle it I hope it goes better for you than it did me.

 

[Jesser04]

Are you looking for a drive alignment tool? We just put big block in a pontoon boat we didn't replace the gimbal but with did have to make sure the drive was aligned. It was no big deal we just had to take the engine in and out a couple times. It's was the first thing we did when Installing the engine so we had no hoses or wiring to deal with.

 

[lewis]

The tool used to align the gimble bearing to the engine on a mercruiser.

 

[Pile of parts]

Just gave one back to my brother in law on Sunday. He lives in Morgan. Not sure when I'll see him again.

 

[O'neal]

My vote.....Buy one,it's really handy to have on hand.