Quick history of my 2-3 week ownership.
Test drive night: boat was hard starting, but turning over. Seller was flooding it while explaining it hadn't been run but once last season, and right about when it seemed it would stop turning over due to running the battery down, it fired up. Cruised...
Re-assembling lower unit after dropping to replace water pump housing/impeller (just lower dropped) for the first time; finding difficulty in believing there's no gasket called for between the two...unless water is expected to leak in, which I don't believe to be the case. Neither surface is...