Thanks for a great season

[airshot]

As I read the posts on this forum I have often wondered if anyone has ever kept track of the number of people who have found all these "shortcuts" to maintain and service their I/O's only to have them back in the spring questioning why their 'shortcuts" did not work, or what went wrong? Having read this forum for many years now, I find it quite interesting the number of people spending good hard earned dollars on their watercraft only to skimp on proper maintainence or the downloading of a proper service manual. I will say I have found it very entertaining and hats off to the fine folks on here that answer many of the same questions over and over each year. I will also add that this great forum has been a God send to myself for answers to things I found difficult to understand in the mercruiser manual. Thanks for a great season of boating.

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[wellcraft-classic210]

Re: Thanks for a great season

Good points // Several comments

Books & manuals are great-- But do not always lead you to directly to a problem solutuion.

Books nor anything elso can make up for experience. Experienced opinions is what this site offers best (Along with a few ridiculous and grumpy ones ).

It takes sometime to learn whats important and how to be proactive on mainatenance items.

Everyone is different and some will never be proactive or mechanically inclined. But as long as those people have $ thay can enjoy boating too. That's actually good for some folks that fall into the first catagory. Sometime I wish I was in the second category but not for long.

 

[Bamaman1]

Re: Thanks for a great season

Wait until you try to use a repair manual and change all the bellows and rubber parts below the waterline on your Mercruiser I/O. That's where experience comes in.

If Mercruiser had just put a larger lip on each end of the bellows, clamps would have held and drive shafts and u joints wouldn't have to be replaced so often. (I never was able to master this seemingly simple job task.) Leave it up to Mercury engineers to make repairs harder than they have to be.