I agree, I am not making any snap decisions

there is NO WAY it has to be thousands... heck, with diligent searching you could find a rotten boat with a good drivetrain and a trailer for a few hundred and then stripping and junking the boat you can sell the trailer.

Click the link in my sig about my monte carlo where it says "build thread here and see what a determined person w very little money can do

While you're at it go ahead and sign up on iboats as it is a VERY good resource for boat info and that will let you see the pics of my build.

OK, so you won't be happy with me but I am sort of meeting half way. I am going to repower my boat. I am going to put a 7.2 hemi in it...

But on a more serious note, I am going to fix the motor or at least have it fixed, so the means you guys have to put up with me for a while longer. I feel much better now. You can't know how stressed I was about this frigging boat, really it's just a boat. I'll be back on the water in 2 weeks.

Yep... you got the fever. Just relax... there's really no cure for it, so you might as well just sit back and enjoy it.

so what happened that locked up the motor?

when i pulled my i/o i put plywood on the floor, put the engine hoist right in the boat, lifted the motor out set on deck, used a come along in a tree to get out of boat. were there is a will theres a way!!

a case of beer for a guy with a tow truck can also get it done.... like Joe tho I have pulled MANY a boat engine under a tree before I decided to build myself a gantry crane