[OMC-Boats] Help! Trailer wheel bearing size?

Hi all: My brother had a bearing failure on the factory trailer with the '69 Sportsman aboard. He's going back to the commuter lot today where he left it to replace the bearing. Is it a 1 1/16" size? Help! Fortunately this was *after* a great day yesterday with a cruise on Lake Michigan down to Saugatuck...so I don't feel too sorry for him. -Doug Julien --- On Fri, 8/14/09, Lee K. Shuster (lib1) <lib1@...> wrote: > From: Lee K. Shuster (lib1) <lib1@...> > Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Newer Upper gear cases > To: bchowk@..., "Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's" <omc-boats@...> > Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 4:59 PM >  > > > > > > > BC, > > Go online and look thru > the GLM catalog http://www.glmmarine.com/pdf/OMC_Catalog.pdf or > > call their office for advice. They have a fairly extensive > listing of upper gear > sets by year and hp rating. I'm pretty sure you can > interchange the upper gear > sets and housing to/from electric shifts: 69-71, 72-78, and > the later > cable-shifter 79-85 stringers, at least that's what I > conclude from a quick > glance at their catalog. > > I would imagine you would > be looking for the 21-19, > 21-18, and 21-17 "in-betweener" ratios. The > 21-16 is the tallest from the > Chevy and Ford 351, while your Buick's present ratio is > very close to 1:1, > either 25:25 or 21:20. If you go used -- then > you want to look > for upper gear sets from 165, 175, 190 hp stringers (ie > Chevy I-6, and 302 Fords > which are pretty common.) > > Lee > > ----- Original Message > ----- > From: > BC Howk > > To: omc-boats@...om > > > Sent: Friday, August > 14, 2009 1:58 > PM > Subject: [OMC-Boats] > Newer Upper gear > cases > > Does anyone out there know what the difference is on > the upper > gearcase for a stringer post 1977. > > I've been toying with the idea of > changing the gearing on my sportsman and an upper gear > case caught my eye on > ebay relatively inexpensive (comparable to just gear > sets I have seen) > rebuilt with a nice 21-20 gear ratio but it says it is > for an 82-86 3.8 liter > V-6...OK, I have not dug really deep into my outdrive > research...yet, but I > haven't seen anything that explains the diference and > I am > just curious if I could use this newer upper > gearcase and bolt it right > in, I mean judging from every picture I have ever seen > the difference is not > immediately obvious... > > Anyone know? > > Cheers, > B.C. > > > > _______________________________________________ > OMC-Boats mailing > list > OMC-Boats@... > http://lists.ultimate.com/mailman/listinfo/omc-boats > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > OMC-Boats mailing list > OMC-Boats@... > http://lists.ultimate.com/mailman/listinfo/omc-boats >
Received on Saturday, 15 August 2009