View Single Post
Old 11-21-2006, 05:46 PM   #14
TomC
Senior Member
 
TomC's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Lakes Region
Posts: 818
Thanks: 42
Thanked 185 Times in 116 Posts
Default the Mercruiser "flat rate" for all 3 bellows is ~3 hours

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave R
I'll be doing the U-joint and shifter bellows on mine next Spring. Looks like a pretty big project that could have been made easier if Mercruiser had used a little more foresight. When you take the drive off ( a ten minute job on a Bravo 3), the U-joint bellows are "right there" in front of you, but according to the service manual, there's still lots of work to do to; bellows replacement calls for "major disassembly". I also plan to tackle the steering play mine has, at the same time, before it gets bad.

For $180-$225, it is worth it to have a mechanic do it. I imagine a shade-tree DIYer will take 10x that amount of time to do it...
TomC is offline   Reply With Quote