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Looks like my tilt motor rusted through and needs repair. However, with the motor down, I am unable to access anything. My intervention thus far is stripping the manual release, breaking the extract took off in the small hole I drilled, and damaging the threads in the valve body assembly thus...
Boat is 1998 21' CC Striper with a 1998 Evinrude Ocean Pro 175 HP (non ficht) engine with 430 hours
Took the boat to OBX and she ran great. Had a period of about 6 weeks with no use and when I got out again she started the day by running great, and then the problem surfaced. She started to...