Recent content by wlewis

I sold the boat and bought a 225 back in 2013. Back when the Gulfstream was about 10 years old, after lifting it by bow and stern eyes, I noticed the stern eyes had both pulled out about 1/4" on each side. That prompted me to remove them, fill the holes with resin, redrill the holes and make...

Except for the homemade backing plate, mine is factory. Came off of my 1996 Gulfstream.

I don't have the second one, only the homemade one that I used on the inside of the transom.

this is one I made for inside the transom.

Not sure I have the second one, but will look further.

I think this is what you mean, correct?

Is this what you’re looking for? If so, send an email address or PM me and you give we your shipping address.

My 2011 Freedom 225 has electronic shift.

Well, Perhaps I'm not as dumb as I thought although my memory is lacking, I just looked through my maintenance files and see where I did replace the water pump in 2019. Still, at 5 years, time to replace it again.

Agree Dennis.

How often should a Yamaha water pump be replaced? My 250 is 13 years old, has about 175 hours on it and still has original pump. Water pressure gauge shows slightly less than half way between minimum and maximum markings, temp gauge shows right in the center between minimum and maximum. Pisser...

It’s pretty tough material. Now that I got the nut off, I can’t even remove my wrench from the Delrin socket. I used a metric size wrench and it fit perfectly. Maybe too well. Thought I’d leave it till I re-install and then wrestle with separating the wrench and Delrin socket.

Even with the nut driver and a big wrench, the nut was a bear to remove. Would have been tough with a crescent wrench.

Here’s what I found to remove the nut. Once it was off, the wheel came right off without a wheel puller.

This is an old thread that explains it is the threaded nut that holds the wheel in place, not a cosmetic cap. https://www.greatgrady.com/threads/steering-wheel-cap-removal.33381/