Trim?

BassKat

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Looking at my service manual, there is an end cap assembly that is replaceable. It’s all repairable if it’s more than the end caps. There is a special tool to remove and torque the end caps and also a trim rod removal tool if you need to remove the trim rods. There’s an Oring at the bottom of each of those. Keeps from marring the trim rod while removing it.

You have two choices.

(1) you can buy the complete gland (the seal and the screw-in part) from Merc dealers.  You need two.

(2) you can remove one, take it to a good hydraulic shop and they can match the seals perfectly.  You can “pick” ’em out of the gland, insert new ones, and be as good as new.  I just did this.  The two trim cylinders are easy.

For either option, as all you need is a spanner wrench to break them loose.  I bought one on Ebay that has a half-dozen different sized pins to provide a tight fit, as well as an adjustable spanner so that you can also remove the center tilt seal if you need to.  That one is a bit harder, but I can talk you through it if you want to replace it too, I just replaced all of mine maybe 3 months ago, for the same reason you gave, that “sheen.”