Let me see if I got this right! I can bring my boat too you and you will pull the drive and disassemble it complete and give me an estimate and if I don't like your estimate or want to get another opinion you won't charge me? This sounds great. Can I get an estimate on my engine too. As long as it is free why not! :idea:
Something tells me this guy knows a little too much. Does anyone know if this guy works @ a shop here in Orange County? Let me just put this whole story in short hand so that I can get some serious feedback on what I can really do.
I go in pay $300.00 for a COMPLETE service (nothing in writing as we never do it's all cash kind of like a side deal for the shop that he works for, but he does all the work right there at this shop), all batteries charged and all fluids from the drive to the engine topped off and/or changed out. At this same time of service he told me that I should replace the 4 small hoses at the bottom of the drive. When I picked it up I noticed that they were not the normal braided type but rather a black hard hose type. I questioned it and he said "ah that's what they sent me but there just as good" o.k. I take his word for it. Service is done and I go out for the first time 3 weeks later drives screws up. I get back in town and drop off one of my nephews and notice that the drive is all the way down and that fluid is leaking from guess where... those hoses that "were just as good as the other ones" (maybe they are maybe there not I don't know, does anybody here know) When I finnally get it over to him he sees the drive tied up with a rope and I show him the fluid stilled kind of bubbled around the hoses he gets his wrench and a couple are loose. Now I know this cannot cause a bearing to go but I Just thoght I would give the whole story. First thing he does is check the drive oil by unscrewing the screw at the top, you can hear the pressure being released as he is unscrewing, takes off the top plate and says theres no oil. He then takes off the prop and fills the drive up. MY QUESTION IS THIS; Can you fill up the drive from the screw at the top? I ask because I know the prop was never removed when he did the service. If it needs to be filled from the bottom then he never changed or topped off the fluid in the drive. Allright bear with me guys and let me finish the story, so he says let me pull off the drive and send it to my guy bla bla bla, and I won.t charge you anything just whatever the price of the drive is. Cool if he tells me $100.00 I will pay it but something tells me he is going to try and tell me something else and there for I wan't to be prepared and act immediately.