low_psi

I decided to fix it myself. Why pay for freight (both ways) and have to wait for it, when they were mos likely to have fixed it the same way I did..... I will post some pics of the repair when I am on my PC (posting from iPhone right now). Repair went well and with any luck will have it sanded, body worked, primered, painted, and back on the boat tomorrow....

low_psi

So here are some shots of the repair..

Here is a pic of the area before any repair. As you can clearly see there is an epoxied repair just to the right of the leaking pin hole.



Here is a close up before repair, again it is very clear the factory ran across a similar problem before it was even painted...



Here is a shot of the area cleaned up. I opened up the hole slightly with a drill and then ground the surrounding area down to get a larger surface area for the epoxy.



Here is a pic of the repair before sanding the epoxy down.



Here is a pic of the finished repair (there is an area just below the repair that needed some cosmetic filling, so the glossy black area is fresh epoxt to fill a cosmetic flaw). I used the Grey Marine-Tex Epoxy. THis stuff dries slow and is like sanding concrete..... But it gets the job done...


Tomorrow I will do a skim coat of metal Glaze, prime and paint. Won't ever be able to tell there was a repair.............

low_psi

Got the repair completed and the lower unit painted. I wish all boat repairs were this easy.....

I had already completly stripped the OE paint, so the black paint in the first pick is new primer. So I just sanded the entire case with 320 and then hit it with a coat of self-etching primer, then 2 coats of primer-filler, then sanded with 320 again to get it flat, then 3 coats of Dupli-color Engine Enamel.



What Leak?

JnT

Looks great! I've had real good luck with that Duplicolor paint too.