Shock Rod Installation - Mercury 40 Service Manual

Shock Rod Installation

1. Place trim cylinder in soft jawed vice.
2. Install lubricated O-ring to memory piston and place into cylinder. Push memory piston
all the way to bottom.
3. Fill cylinder three inches (76.2 mm) from top of cylinder using Quicksilver Power Trim
and Steering Fluid. If not available, use automotive (ATF) automatic transmission fluid.
4. Install shock rod into cylinder until power trim fluid flows through oil blow off ball passage.
Fill remaining cylinder to just below the cylinder threads.
a -
b -
c -
End cap must not make contact with shock rod piston when tightening. Shock rod
piston must be positioned in cylinder deep enough to avoid contact.
5. Tighten end cap securely using spanner wrench [1/4 in. x 5/16 in. (6.4 mm x 8 mm) long
pegs]. If a torquing type spanner tool is used to tighten end cap, then torque to specified
torque.
90-828631R3 MARCH 1999
Memory Piston
O-ring
Oil Blow Off Ball Passage
End Cap Torque
45 lb-ft (61 Nm)
a
b
CAUTION
POWER TRIM
c
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