This feels like it is going to be expensive

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  • randy56randy56 Member Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would like to know also seems like failure with low hours of use, Mine had a crack and low speed wobble made me look drunk all the time. here is one theory :

    A dealer mechanic told me not to troll at idle speed (800 rpms), his comment was the idle speed does not create a full even load on bearings & seals as opposed to higher rpms having a balanced load rhythm going on ...
    It maybe BS..........
    You would think merc could do a better job on design,.

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  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭✭
    Well for me the first transom assembly was trashed from impact.  The cost to just replace the broken pieces and swap out was more than the cost of the whole assembly.  We were talking the bell housing, lift cylinders, trim sender, hoses bellows etc...all were trashed on one.  The other i messed up.  I was removing the raw water nipple that bolts to the inside to look at the water hose and snapped off a bolt inside the transom assembly.  The design for the old water hoses is terrible and i couldn't even get a medium phillips screw driver through the water hose opening.  That is how much it was restricting water and cooling.  Couldn't drill out the bolt so that engine had to come out.  Found a brand new one on Craigs list within driving distance for $1500 and wrote a check for that one.  My only thought is that they take a lot of abuse.  Sit in the water and get vibrations from the engine as well as the occasional smack on the bottom.  My thought is that if you get 10 yrs out of it then just replace with new and move on.  Personally i feel a lot more confident with them being back there brand new.  All i have to do now is get my second outdrive rebuilt this winter and i will basically have a brand new boat from the transom back.  Now to just start working forward. 
    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm thinking I have to get my out drive rebuilt too.. hoping it's not crazy expensive. 
  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭✭
    @J3ff Highly recommend calling George at http://www.allamericandriveservice.com/.  Shipping is $300 round trip.  and complete rebuild with 2yr warranty was under $4800.  It all depends on what you need done.  My next one is going to him this winter.
    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,552 mod
    @J3ff Highly recommend calling George at http://www.allamericandriveservice.com/.  Shipping is $300 round trip.  and complete rebuild with 2yr warranty was under $4800.  It all depends on what you need done.  My next one is going to him this winter.

    The last B-2 drive I had replaced OEM, cost me less than $2k more than what you've spent.  That includes diagnosis (which was pretty simple), labor, haul-out and block of boat, OEM drive, bellows, gimble bearing kit.  Not sure how much price difference there is between B-2 & B-3 drives, but not sure a savings of $2k would've been worth it for me.  Now, the OEM only comes with a 1-yr warranty.  I also didn't miss a weekend (except the time on the weekend it happened).

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

  • reneechris14reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    great job in the engine bay sooo clean and bright.
    2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct
  • BellevilleMXZBellevilleMXZ Member Posts: 732 ✭✭✭

    Nice job!!


    2005 Rinker 270 FV Volvo Penta 5.7Gi
  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW!!!!!  @davidbrooks AWESOME job!

    Glad I asked for pictures. That engine bay is better than OEM from most manufacturers!

    What did you use for "paint" epoxy? polyurethane?
  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭✭
    3 coats of white bilge coat paint from west marine. It is just a gloss white enamel.
    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
  • DanD2DanD2 Member Posts: 847 ✭✭✭
    @davidbrooks.....nice job man, that engine compartments looks horny!!!


    No longer a boat owner.....previous boat - 2005 Rinker Fiesta Vee 342
  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,552 mod
    Very Very nice!!  I love looking at clean engine rooms!  I could just sit in them all day and have a drink and admire!

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great job David
  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mine is nasty..
  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2017
    The engine room is always one of my personal pet peeves.  Sort of a barometer on how meticulous a person is with maint.  For me it was always a mess and bugged the heII out of me that i gotg greasy every time i went in there. or that it was dark and easy to lose tools, screws etc...I swear if i drop one more socket i am going to come up with some sort of tray system to put around the engines to catch stuff.
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    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Easy when you have a motor out, sort of a do over...what can you really do?
  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Member Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭✭
    When i put on the first two coats it was 94 degrees out.  Let me tell you.  Working in an engine compartment, in paper painters overalls, painting enamel paint.  Wouldn't classify it as easy.  Every time i bent over sweat poured out the suit.  Getting up as high as possible and not getting paint on wires, hoses etc... took a while.  But you are correct.  Engines out is easier and lets you get under the engine pan.  That was the one area i couldn't get to with the engines in.  Otherwise it is doable.  
    It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!
  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You can come paint mine and fix all the peeling gel coat also
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