Fixing the drive shaft - now what?

[boat-dude]

Okay, so the guys are over on a Saturday night. A couple of beers and "we can get the engine out". In getting the engine out, the drive shaft was pulled from the back. It looks like there had been some form of water seal around the shaft.

Now that the beer is gone, how should I get the shaft back in correctly?

Please let me know.

Thanks
Brent

 

[D 5UPE]

The water seal is a carbon ring that pushes onto a stainless steel ring.
The stainless steel ring has a clip that sits just under the stainless ring.

If the carbon ring is damaged its best replaced with a new one.
If your shaft is bent they can be straightend at most gear and shaft workshops. But once weakend there not as reliable as a new one.
Make shure you line the shaft up to the forward shaft corectly.
You'll know its out of alingment once you try it in the water and feel vibration through the footwell.
Hope you get it sorted.

 

[boat-dude]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to not get this earlier, I still don't have interent at home. In order to get to the ring, do I need to get to it from the impeller side or can it be checked resolved from the engine compartment?

Thanks
Brent

 

[timmyboy76]

hey boat-dude...
only way to replace the ring, is either..A) Pull the pump assy, and pop snap ring behind the steel collar, so shaft can be removed, or B) pull motor, loose'n smaller clamp at zert fitting off "pto"...:cheers:

 

[Nate Surveyor]

I recommend the easy way...

Get some more beer, and it will all come back to you!

N

 

[boat-dude]

Sorry but I'm "mechanically challenged". I have the engine out and the drive shaft out right now. The shaft is very clean with the exception of some age at the spline going into the pump. I assume that this is where you are telling me the carbon ring is. I tend to break something every time I try to fix something so if I don't need to remove the pump assembly, that would be great. So is the ring back by the pump and can I feed the shaft back through it without removing the pump? - Thanks

 

[timmyboy76]

http://partsfinder.onlinemicrofiche.com/seadooforums/Seadoo_oem/Seadoo_PWC.asp?Type=13&A=102&B=13
check out the diagram. While shaft out, clean w/ steel wool, check the splines, make sure noth'n rounded, then roll on floor to see the "tru" of it. Then when reinstall'n, make sure the shaft "plugs" are in each end, then refer to diagram, somewhat simple stud...:cheers:

 

[derek]

the shaft is in your hand. the wide steel flange has to come off the shaft. stand shaft on the pump end and tap the steel flange down towards it. this will move it and expose a little c-ring that has to come off the shaft. now, you have to pull the pump. you can get motor out with shaft in place, but not back in. not without forcing and breaking stuff. much more likely to break stuff this way than pulling pump.