Quote Originally Posted by torch View Post
I had a guy hit a rock dike two years ago and lost the lower unit on a 70 yamaha. LU, New stainless prop and labor was 4400.00. Could not find a rebuilt LU at the time. It also broke off all bolts going to LU. Had to drill them out and heli coil all the holes.
Did you let him use some of your blue shop towels to clean up the mess in his pants afterwards? If he hit a rock dike hard enough to break off the four bolts that hold on the LU then the impact had to be a real attention getter.