Shake down cruise gone bad

[stoney]

The shake down cruise in the Chesapeake went very bad when the submerged log hit the lower unit. It broke off the splash guard for lack of a better term. See attached. Has anyone successfully repaired anything like this?
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../001640480.jpg

[gw204]

I've used the gray Marine Tex on lower units before. I bet you could build it back up with that stuff.

[Trayder]

take it to a welder/fabricator and they will have it like new in no time.


Sorry to hear this happened on your first trip out.

[Fr. Frank]

Ditto on what Trayder says. It's not even expensive. I had the back 4" of the cavitation plate of my wife's old 115 fabricated and welded after being struck by a car and it cost only $130 a couple of years ago..

[jongolds]

A welder is definitely the way to go. I've had to get skegs welded a couple fo times. It makes it a little easier on them if you can give them a tracing of what it should like like when done. If you can find another motor with the same leg, just trace the area back to a good reference point, like the back of the leg so that he know how big and what shape the piece he needs to weld on should be.

[eggsuckindog]

As mentioned should be no problem and it doesn't bear much pressure

[MMikeB]

It was a bad day but it could have bean a lot worse, you could have got to inside the casing. This is an easy fix for a welder that heliarcs aluminum. Basically someone that makes fuel tanks could take care of this.

[Finster]

I wouldn't loose a lot of sleep over it, it's not going to hurt performance. The cavitation plate is above the water when your running. Though cosmetically......
Thats much better than a whole lot of other nasties that could of happened.