摘要:
An outboard engine construction in which an engine is mounted at the upper end of an extension case provided with a stern bracket adapted to be clamped to a stern plate of a vessel and a gear case having a rotatable propeller is connected to the lower end of the extension case. A drive shaft connected to a crank shaft of the engine is housed within the extension case and a drives a gear assembly connected to the propeller. The extension case is constituted by a primary upper case portion and a selectively removable auxiliary lower case portion. A transmission is contained in the auxiliary case portion and is detachably interposed therewith between the drive shaft and the gear assembly.