Macojoe,

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm pretty discouraged right now and my kid is crushed.

Right now, the way I see it, is that this season is gone, I spent $3000 for a good hull and a lousy engine. I guess it boils down to my paying a little too much for the hull. If I sell it I'm not going to get my $$ back so I might as well keep it. Right now I don't have the money to repower.

This motor is a machine. In fact, it's not really all that complicated. I don't want to brag but all my life I've tackled jobs that everone said I couldn't do and done them. So, here's my plan.

Pull the power head, put it in my basement, open the damn thing up a see what is wrong. At that point either fix it or put it in the dumpster. What have I got to lose? Even if I can't fix it, I'll learn something.

I'll keep you posted.