Hello John Talley here with Boats.net, and if you've been following along on
our rebuild series on this 2004 Yamaha F225, well it's finally time to
reinstall our rebuilt lower unit to our rebuilt power head and midsection. So are
there any special tools? No, just regular hand tools are all that's going to be
required. Parts? Not going to need any for this particular exercise. So let me get
this thing tilted up and we'll show you how to get it reinstalled.
We've got her tilted up, and I'm getting ready to release it from its stand and
then get it reinstalled. But before I do so, I want to go ahead and take some red
loctite and put it on our bolts because I really don't want these to work their
way out, and once you get this thing up in position, you need to have the loctite
on there because, well, you're gonna run out of hands. So let me get a little
bit of loctite on each one of these threads, we'll release the lower unit and
then get it installed. Let's add a little bit of grease on the shift shaft and our
water pickup or pass through. One more thing that we need to check is to make
sure that we're in neutral and we are. Now it'd be a good time to check the
shifting mechanism up on the outboard itself to make sure it's in that neutral
position as well. Yep, she's dead center. Last let's coat down the splines on our
input shaft. We're gonna guide this up,
then the real tricky part is making sure that the shift shaft lines up as well as
your water tube. There we go. There's the water,
there's the shift shift. Okay, that's the first one of six that go around the
front and the sides. And we're going to get the other five in, then we'll have
one that's hidden up in here, then there's another bolt that goes back down
that actually holds the trim tab in place. And then hidden right back here is
where number seven goes. And each one's gonna go to 34 foot-pounds.
Thirty-four foot pounds is not a lot of torque-- that's why that red loctite is so
important. Let's get that longer one in place. Thirty-four foot pounds on that
longer one as well. Now let's get our trim tab in place. I'm just going to set
it at a zero for right now, because we'll have to fine-tune it when we actually
install this on a boat. This is a little bit less torque-- 31 foot-pounds. Well all
right guys, that pretty much wraps this one up. What's going to happen next? Well,
I'm gonna go ahead and put all the the panels and covers back on it, then we're
gonna roll it outside and actually start it up for the first time. So if you'd
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