If you have a borescope, I'd go that route before doing anything else.. you don't wanna spend hours trying to figure out how to tighten/reseal those sender wires and find out it was fine all along.. Might be something as simple as a loose clamp on the shift cable boot or something as not fun as a steering pin seal... I'd do your best to diagnose before anything.. Maybe you already did and I misread, but just giving my $0.02

AShipShow,

I've been chewing on it. For the record, I have checked and rechecked the shift boot and U-joint bellows, and they are good as far as I can tell. Hilltop did mention the potential of the swivel pin seal being the issue. I have my doubts there, as we had ZERO leaks before, but there is always the possibility. They also mentioned that there is usually a "rust streak" below the transom assembly when this is the case, and we have none of that. Fingers crossed there. My thing is that I've got an opportunity to do the trim wire seal thing without having to pay someone or drag the boat back home to Dayton, so I wanna jump on that opportunity if I can. You're not wrong, though. I probably will drag the boat over to the ramp, dunk its azz in the water and have a look before going to the effort.

Thanks. Brad.

up and turned to port

AShipShow,

Did just this, and confirmed the breach was around the trim wire seals. Swivel pin seal appears to be good.

BoatNT,

Up and to starboard worked better for me. It appears that the bolt was bottoming out on in the tapped hole before solidly locking the horseshoe clamp over the seals, I added a flat and a lock washer and was (somehow) able to get it back through the clamp and into the hole and locked down as it is supposed to be.

Leak appears to be gone.

Thanks. Brad.

Leak appears to be gone. [img alt=""]/forums/images/smilies/ernaehrung004.gif[/img]

Until it isn’t. Just having some fun. Easy fix.

Sonic42,

Bite your damned tongue.

Thanks. Brad.