Awe come on Steve I need a good chopper11 for the 225. I hear ya they make great paper weights to. Skydog I thought yours was a 280, correction. Your new twins are 280s thats right. :twisted:
The stb side link arm looks suspect. The port side is attached with a castle nut & cotter pin at the down-turned end. The stb side is attached with a re-used nylock and looks like the rod had previously fractured at the cotter pin hole. Not sure why the rod would have fractured at the cotter pin hole? Anyway, I'd like to replace. Are these link arms still available? From Merc?
I'm pretty sure you can get them from Allison. A friend of mine snapped one a couple of months back at the 90 degree bend. Luckily, nothing bad happened and he saw it when he did. :shock: