That is why I say my next boat I hope the motor blows up on Sea trial, at least I know where I am starting.

I hope you checked the other motor out real good, think they painted just one?

This IS the "other" motor (Stbd). The port motor is at the machine shop now, they had me come by to look at the pan on that one which was painted too, but the paint had not failed yet. So after seeing that I got home and dropped the pan off the stbd motor.

Good thing you caught that. Looks like one more chip could’ve really cut off flow.

Couple other common sense psa’s

don’t eat those paint chips, no matter how tasty they might look
don’t shake the baby
don't drive on the wrong side of the expressway
don’t vote democrat

Yep, it's very possible the next time this motor was run, could have been the last time. Dodged a bullet!

I approve the rest of your message.

I got one more but its from a song.

Don't take your half of the road out of the middle.