Had a wonderful dinner, stopped and shut the engines off and sat for almost an hour in a bay... light wind and 84 out and watched the sun set.
Went to leave, and found I had no forward or reverse on the port engine. Odd! Watched it actuate and everything up until the lower shift cable seemed fine. Didn't think it was the coupler as the cooling pump still ran, but forward/reverse went in with no resistance whatsoever and it felt like nothing was there.
I get back and went to make sure there I didn't somehow hit something while drifting in 14' of water, or see anything on the drive... trimmed it all the way up and guess what? No prop or any of the hardware.
Last summer, I bought two brand new OMC props from a local marina where I buy all my OMC parts. When I got them home, only one fit... they very nicely sent a mechanic free of charge out who swapped the prop spacer for one he had in his toolbox, and all was well.
P*ssed at the marina, but very glad it's the likely the missing prop and not big drive problems
Went to leave, and found I had no forward or reverse on the port engine. Odd! Watched it actuate and everything up until the lower shift cable seemed fine. Didn't think it was the coupler as the cooling pump still ran, but forward/reverse went in with no resistance whatsoever and it felt like nothing was there.
I get back and went to make sure there I didn't somehow hit something while drifting in 14' of water, or see anything on the drive... trimmed it all the way up and guess what? No prop or any of the hardware.
Last summer, I bought two brand new OMC props from a local marina where I buy all my OMC parts. When I got them home, only one fit... they very nicely sent a mechanic free of charge out who swapped the prop spacer for one he had in his toolbox, and all was well.
P*ssed at the marina, but very glad it's the likely the missing prop and not big drive problems
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