Opinions on if I should repower 18

[Bandit91]

It was a bad day today for my little seacraft. Its a porter 18 with a Yamaha v4 130. I’ve been keeping an eye on my steering arm for a while, it’s had the dreaded corrosion and I knew the day would come where it would become to brittle for me to chance. While inspecting it today I was actually able to bend it and it seems like I could break it if I really tried, so needless to say the seacraft won’t be going out again until it is fixed. My dilemma is should I go through the hassle of trying to fix the steering arm (removing power head, most likely breaking bolts in power head, trying to find a new steering arm since I’m pretty sure they’re no longer making that part, etc) or just repower my boat. I love the boat and it’s always performed great with the 130. Unfortunately it’s still a 20” transom so if I was repowering I would like to go ahead and raise the transom for a 25” motor and I can see the snowball effect coming already. I really don’t won’t my boat down for the whole summer either. What would y’all do if you were in my situation? The 130 runs great and has good compression, but the mercury 115 pro xs sure sounds nice about now too?