Impeller Replacement Questions

[THEFERMANATOR]

Been awhile since I dropped mm MERC, couldn't remember how everything went together. Then again I normally just wing it and put it together how it looks best. Another thing to keep in mind when putting the foot on though is you have to line up the shift rod to the shift shaft on the lower when your sliding it all together. And some years have a shift rod that telescopes as my 95 does this. Once I got it back together I had to use a pair of needle nose pliers and re-engage the shift shaft back in to the rod.

[BRIELLY]

Got it done today. Apparently there are two different shift types -cam and ez shift. I figured out that I had the ez shift model which installs in neutral instead of forward. We had to just rotate the flywheel just a tad and everything went together relatively easy. The shift shaft has quite a bit of play so that was the hardest part to keep lined up. Thanks again

[spareparts]

I allways put them in fwd whether its ez shift or standard, Mercury used to recomend it that way, but changed it to nuetral on outboards to prevent the rare chance the engine could start when turn the prop by hand. When you are dealing with I/O's(Alpha's anyways), you can't get the drive of with out putting it in fwd

[THEFERMANATOR]

Learned that one the hard way about the ALPHA's. I sure looked funny trying to get that thing off for the first 5 minutes.