Re: 2 hours labor to replace u joints on a 290 vp out drive
I gave you a professional answer. I pointed out some facts from the service manual. I dont make 110 an hour. I do bill the public at 75 per hour and any marinias I contract for at 45 per hour. uncle same grabs 35% right off the top. just like cream on milk. the state grabs another 12% or so and the locals have their hand in the pot as well. time I am done I actually keep maybe 1/2 of what I work for. then the sears store,snap-on man and matco has there hand out. see all them fancy dealer tools hanging on the wall? guess what pally pal, aint a single one was free. I pay for each and every tool. I even pay for the ones volvo or yamaha deems as "essential" and have no choice in ordering. ya actually think all this killer diagnostic computers PDA';s and software is FREE? I want some of what your smoking. <br /> myself I dont care who buys the parts. but if anything fails the only warrenty I give is that the parts supplied were installeds correctly. maybe DonS can tell if any 290 uppers were made without the crush sleeve. what I said was if it has a crush sleeve and the sleeve was dissasebled to acess the ujoints as per the tech manual and a new sleeve and bolt were not used as per the manual odds are your looking at an upper bearing box failure. I work for one marina that has had two bravo failures and will have many more. the lead tech never replaces the load ring when reassembling the lower and he never heard of timing the gears in the upper. his bidness card says he is a mercruiser master tech. I have known him for 15 years or so and about all I can say is he does have a box full of tools. some of the old school techs never pick up a service manual and wing everything. its amazing some of the shops I have worked for.<br /> so maybe your man actually opened the manual, maybe he did not. but if its assembled improperly it will self destruct and you will still be out the 2 hours. I had an upper on a DP fail a few years back after I replaced the yoke. the man brought me just the upper. I resealed it and replaced the yoke. about 6 weeks later he shows up with the boat, the recipt and threats. I pulled the upper and low and behold no shim under the bottom bearing. I found the lower bearing shim in his parts box he brought back. he did not know it was a shim so he did not reinstall it. I did not warrenty jack squat.<br /> so dont flame us all. I just pointed out facts and left no opimions. its not my fault boating got so expensive.
I gave you a professional answer. I pointed out some facts from the service manual. I dont make 110 an hour. I do bill the public at 75 per hour and any marinias I contract for at 45 per hour. uncle same grabs 35% right off the top. just like cream on milk. the state grabs another 12% or so and the locals have their hand in the pot as well. time I am done I actually keep maybe 1/2 of what I work for. then the sears store,snap-on man and matco has there hand out. see all them fancy dealer tools hanging on the wall? guess what pally pal, aint a single one was free. I pay for each and every tool. I even pay for the ones volvo or yamaha deems as "essential" and have no choice in ordering. ya actually think all this killer diagnostic computers PDA';s and software is FREE? I want some of what your smoking. <br /> myself I dont care who buys the parts. but if anything fails the only warrenty I give is that the parts supplied were installeds correctly. maybe DonS can tell if any 290 uppers were made without the crush sleeve. what I said was if it has a crush sleeve and the sleeve was dissasebled to acess the ujoints as per the tech manual and a new sleeve and bolt were not used as per the manual odds are your looking at an upper bearing box failure. I work for one marina that has had two bravo failures and will have many more. the lead tech never replaces the load ring when reassembling the lower and he never heard of timing the gears in the upper. his bidness card says he is a mercruiser master tech. I have known him for 15 years or so and about all I can say is he does have a box full of tools. some of the old school techs never pick up a service manual and wing everything. its amazing some of the shops I have worked for.<br /> so maybe your man actually opened the manual, maybe he did not. but if its assembled improperly it will self destruct and you will still be out the 2 hours. I had an upper on a DP fail a few years back after I replaced the yoke. the man brought me just the upper. I resealed it and replaced the yoke. about 6 weeks later he shows up with the boat, the recipt and threats. I pulled the upper and low and behold no shim under the bottom bearing. I found the lower bearing shim in his parts box he brought back. he did not know it was a shim so he did not reinstall it. I did not warrenty jack squat.<br /> so dont flame us all. I just pointed out facts and left no opimions. its not my fault boating got so expensive.
