Edit! So a year later and I'm on the water and motor is barely peeing. I beach the boat and take off lower end (make sure to keep tools on your boat!) and inspect impeller - it was fine but TWO old impeller blades were stuck in water channel (under metal gasket) restricting water flow...make sure to take the screen intake off and find old broken impeller blades unlike I did!!
Thanks for this episode. I dropped the lower unit on my Honda 20hp, informed by your tutorial. It was easy, and when I found the impeller intact, I used my compressor to blow out the intake tube. All reassembled, and water circulating like it should. Problem solved!
@@towerh6680 Definitely! But the main benefit for me of viewing video tutorials like yours is that it demystifies the mechanical processes involved, and gives me the confidence to just dive in and do it. I recently installed a n OEM starter motor and related parts on an 8HP Yamaha outboard, and again, it was thanks to online content that I was able to tackle this much more complicated job. Cheers!
@davidcooper2516 Right! I enjoy that as well. I also make the videos so when I forget how to do it I just watch it again lol. I keep a spare impeller and the few tools needed on my boat at all times now so I can fix on the water if needed.
@@towerh6680 Great idea. I'll be doing that too, though this job would be much more challenging while afloat. But the consequences of running the engine without a functioning impeller are clearly disastrous. I always have a backup to get to port in the form of an electric trolling motor. Slow, but reliable.
Haha me too. That's why I make these videos. Wasn't peeing good yesterday so I watched the ending of the video to see lol. Blew compressed air in the line and it cleared it.
I've got a problem with these impellers splitting at the hub part. Put a new one on about 15 hours ago. No pee yesterday. New one split. Either a batch of crap impellers - both were bought at the same time as a pair of kits - or maybe the replacement Woodruff key-type thing is the wrong size. Looks too small to me. And the old one went to the tip in a big bag of crap two weeks ago. Thought about this just after getting the email saying they'd shipped the new impeller. I'm guessing you can't just buy a new key on its own. Bollocks. BTW, just wait until you need to change the cam belt. Easy-ish once you've found the proper tool to pull off the flywheel. (which you'll never use again). And one more BTW. A free pdf of the workshop manual for these motors is easy to find online. Looking at the comments below, some might find this useful.
Can somebody help me please? I tried to remove the lower unit, it worked but it only comes down about 4 inches and that it, sound like the shaft requires something to be removed, not sure what to do, help please :)
You're missing the two nuts that releases the shift rod. Make sure you're in reverse and then they are both exposed. They are facing the back of your boat, middle of the shaft
Welcome! I've revisited my videos because I forget too lol. It wasn't peeing great yesterday when I was crabbing so looked at the video to see how it should...blew air in the line and it cleared it.
