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Latest news: My mechanic took the outdrive apart and found a mess with the gears in the upper, so the upper is getting rebuilt with new stuff. If I had the money for it I would have probably gone with an SEI upper. It's costing about the same to rebuild it through my mechanic though he's already...
Hello!
First boat, first post. I have a '93 Chaparral with a 5.0 Mercruiser, Alpha One Gen 2 outdrive.
I recently bought the boat from someone that had it sitting since 2006 I think... and it is now 2022. I've done just about everything to get it water ready including: emptying the fuel tank...
