I was getting some noise from my damper plate and knew it was time to change it. It wasn't an easy job because the entire bell housing and motor mounts had t...

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you can see the motor transmission down

here is the transmission the damper

plate is inside the bell housing

attached to the flywheel so this is

update on progress this is the exhaust

pipe that I took off because I felt

movement I think there's a crack

somewhere up in here but out of the

motor is all exhaust gases up to this

point and this is where water is mixed

in with it looks pretty rusty I'm going

to see if I can have another one

fabricated so anyways I'll show you what

we removed a muffler that was here I

disconnected the prop from this shaft

saver there so next is to start taking

off the six bell housing bolts and

things should just pop right off on my

hands and I should be able to see the

damper plate

okay we have all six bolts removed and

that thing should pop loose I'm just

gonna grab the back of this you start

wiggling this up and down right here

grab the back of that and this this

whole plate it's bolted to this

transmission or gearbox should just pop

out hopefully I got enough room here and

don't have to take this off this is a

big pain in the butt to remove because

you can see the nuts down behind there

that would give me enough room but I'm

hoping not to have to do that so the

transmission is out and what you see

right there is called a damper plate

and peers that it is bigger than the

whole can't come out

which is bad a little bad

means the whole Bell housings got to

come off the starters got to come off

and the rear motor mounts are mounted to

the bell housing

so you disconnect the rear motor mounts

whoops which you can see we're not bad

shape rusted

thank you

see that that's that's supposed to

happen that's where my slop is that's

supposed to be pretty tight nope figure

this out the next day and I have

declared a little victory I have removed

the damper plate I'm gonna take you back

real quick and show you this carnage all

these pipes are cheater bars four

different tools right now the motor is

resting on those blocks Bell housings

removed with the motor mounts these

areas down here are the pads where the

motor mounts need to sit obviously that

one needs to be rebuilt so I'll peel

that top piece of plywood off see what's

left if you can even see item there's

one bolt right there that I'd dremel

tool the thing pop the motor mount over

the top of it that one looks okay I will

probably still do something with that

luckily the front motor mounts look to

be in better condition and that's a

relative term they don't look like new

at all but

so now I'm gonna take you upstairs I

called the upstairs it's the cockpit so

right here is the transmission that's a

muffler that's a starter this is gonna

get a brand new one this is the bell

housing right there those are the motor

mounts those still have to have to

figure out how to remove those and get

some new ones

hopefully that are a little different

size wider bolt holes because this

actually gets lagged into wood the

stringers which is the main motor mount

cradle is made of wood and this here so

this is the damper plate and damper

plate adapter the big ring on the

outside right there is the adapter the

damper plate itself is just this middle

portion with the Springs on it flip it

over there's these little allen head hex

head another allen wrench Allen heads

that correspond to those bolts right

there so I'm gonna go start my research

around town to see where I can find the

damper plate I'm gonna be reusing the

adapter and hopefully I'll find some

sort of industrial marine place that

will be able to at least identify what

this damper plate is

this is a working do-it-yourself

boatyard

so here's my bellhousing

and we are gonna try to get this bolt

off their nut off and this nut off these

go away I got new motor mounts we're

gonna clean this up primer paint

everything and get it ready to put back

in there's the old motor mounts they

were too rusted to really have any

practical adjustability that's the motor

mount bracket there and there that's all

about cleaning this up priming it and

painting it back in the boat ants

crawling up sink I had done my dishes

and within an hour they were coming out

but they're done drying now as you can

see it's ninety point nine degrees in

here today this is the front cabin back

cabin I called a cab in bedroom berth

it's actually pretty nice especially

when you stick your head way up in here

so we kind of have a halt tour plans you

can see those two little nubs there's

one there there those are broken bolts

lag bolts so I'm gonna make new

stainless steel plates that go over the

top of that and the mount will bolt to

the stainless steel plate and then the

stainless steel plate will be longer and

bolt through the stringer at different

locations for both sides the starter

which goes in there that's going to be

rebuilt won't be done any time soon so

my next trip back in October it's gonna

be putting this mess back together

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