Hi,

I just replaced the impeller on my 7.5 gamefisher (217.586753) but am having problems re-installing the drive shaft and water tube.  How the heck do you get both of them to line up?  I can get the drive shaft by itself, but whenever I put the water tube in, it will not go in all the way.  Is there an O-ring at the top of the tube that should hold the tube in place while sliding the bottom into the water pump housing?  Everytime I get the tube into place, it just fits loose and kind of sits there.  This is the last bit I need to finish before finally being able to hit the water.  Any and all suggestions are welcome.  Thanks.

P.S. - much easier working with the engine sitting upside down on the ground.  Feeding the shaft down instead of trying to hold it up saves on the back.

You might want to try your question at the iboats.com forums.  There seems to be some real experts lurking on those forums.

http://forums.iboats.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27

Regards

Thanks for the reply.  After 6 hours of messing around with it, I found that the tube was bent, just a little bit.  This prevented the tube from going in straight and properly seated.  Once I tweaked the tube a little bit, it kind of "snapped" into the power head.  Then the rest was easy.  Hope this helps anyone else trying to accomplish this for the first time.