Reply With Quotealways good to hear about good service....
glad they got you back up and running
Two enthusiastic thumbs up to Eric and the guys at Maverick Marine. My bro just left there and Eric stayed over and hour after shop hours to get it done. Eric said it was around a $1500 dollar job that cost us $25 dollars since we have the extended warranty through Mercury. The cable was damage, the linkage connecting it to the drive was broke due to corrosion, and some various other parts needed to be replaced. He showed my bro all the old parts and explained what was done. You think these kinds of things would have been noticed at the last service since the boat was used only twice since then.
A bigger thanks goes out to my bro who came down from San Berdo to SD to support MsEduKATor at her marathon this weekend, then went back to San Berdo and drove the boat over to Marerick Marine in Van Nuys. He left at 6 am this morning but do to cluster f u c k s on the freeways it took him 3 hours to get there. He gave up the rest of his day and hung around there until is was done a little over 15 minutes ago, and now he's on his way back to San Berdo which is gonna probably take another 3 hours with traffic. Our usual shop is only 2 miles away from my bro, but I don't think we will be going back there anymore due to the problems we've had lately. Thanks bro I owe you one before you leave. Havasu here we come for our third attempt this season. So far we are 0-2, 3rd times a charm.
al'coholic, thanks for the info and directions.
always good to hear about good service....
glad they got you back up and running
yeah it's not too often you hear about it, so I thought I'd spread the good word.
gotta love extended warranties! Did they tell you what caused the corrosion? That seems pretty extreme for such a new boat. How do you zincs look? Maybe some grounding or electrolysis issues.
Eric told my bro that the clamp that comes off the drive which holds the drive cable failed and it let water seep into the cable housing. That water then caused the corrosion in the cable. How the clamp failed in the first place, now that remains a mistery. Sounds like an episode of CSI.
Sweet!! I'm glad you got your boat fixed. When are you guys going out again? How did Ms EduKATor do in her marathon?
Thanks Jenn. I'm not sure when we are going out, but it's going to be soon since Ray leaves at the end of June. I'm going to have to start charging you and Matt everytime you use the word slurricane. I think I have the legal rights to that name.
Nicole did great in my mind, but she said it was 10 times as hard as last year. She was in Urgent Care the night before the race due to a pretty bad sinus infection and she came down with the flu. Despite that she ran the whole marathon even without being able to breath through her nose as much as she would have liked, but she finished and we partied afterwards in old town san diego, and PB. She's a trooper.
Damn, she is a trooper! Tell her I said congrats!!
The word slurricane is getting a little popular on here
They were popular this past weekend.
Glad to hear all worked out well, the drive is gonna suck for your brother.
Yeah I've heard slurrican mentioned in alot of the OP6 threads. As long as they did the job.
She said the pain she went through is nothing compared to what people with cancer have to go through, so she wasn't about to quit. That and my bro kept telling her Move Your Ass, which seemed to work.
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