The lower portion of the lower unit is bent. If you were to sight along the bottom of the boat from forward to aft you'd see that instead of pointing at 6 oClock, the seg is bent such that it's .. well.. 5:45. The outdrive it only bent along this axis and is not twisted in any other way. I am tempted to just leave it as it is, but am wondering if this may be causing the slight uneven keel I've been experiancing while underway.<br /><br />If I attempt to bend this back into form, how can I go about doing that without breaking the skeg off? I know alluminum is very brittle.
, but if you do try, and it breaks, you can always put on the "skeg guard" as a replacement. I ended up doing that after I found a rock later in my adventures. Actually, I find it looks better than the original anyway. <br /><br />I have found a guy though here in Southern Ontario that can fix/replace a skeg WITHOUT having to dismantle it, for around $160Cdn. He does REALLY good work. He even fixed a small outboard that had broken in 2 at the engine/shaft seem, and now it's stronger than when it was new.