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billw

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I never heard of complete ejection, either. By 1976, Mercury finally got stainless prop shafts, shift shafts and drive shafts. This took Mercury from a company that had the worst gear cases in the business, to a company that maybe had the BEST gear cases in the business. That same basic case was used on 35 through 70 hp models and was very reliable. Although it might seem like the 70 was pushing the higher limits of a 35 hp case, the 70 was really kind of anemic for it’s advertised horse power. The OMC 70s would smoke them, as did the later-to-come Yamaha 70s. But I digress. I think the only way yours could have ejected the gut would be that someone mis-assembled it or it hit an underwater obstruction and the case cracked open, allowing the cover nut to come free of its threads…..

Long live American manufacturing!