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

What kind of help do you need?  Just saying "Help!" doesn't give us much to go on.  I suggest you go to etrailer.com, trailerpartssuperstore.com, or trailerpartsdepot.com and watch some of the "how to" videos they have posted.  That's going to do a lot more for you than a bunch of guessing at what kind of help you might need.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Julien" <dfjulien@...>
To: "Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's" <omc-boats@...mate.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:03:14 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [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
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> 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@...
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>  
>   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.
>  
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