WOW, After reading these forums I'm starting to freak out a little. I've been in boating two seasons now and we are trying to find what we like, we started with a little 16 foot john boat then a try hull then a runabout v all with outboards, Middle of this summer we picked up a 86 Regal Sebring cuddy with the 170 mercruiser, the out drive went I replaced it. Changed all the oils and plug wires, solenoids, points, coil, and took it on a 400 mile round trip on the Mississippi and would swear by the performance of the engine. Now I'm doing all this reading on the 470 and its got me paranoid. Doing the trip we ran it minimum 6 hours straight a day and the oil, water gauges read even threw the trip, I would think that those would be indicators of a going engine. Any way what would some one suggest I replace this motor with? Its the 19 foot cuddy. If I could find a 305 how hard would it be to switch it out. I have on hand the outdrive for a 305 but not the gimbals. Hope to have allot of feedback here since this colume is what has made me paranoid. Its a great boat in great shape Its just the first IO I bought and new nothing about them.
