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Originally Posted by randlemanboater

If they don't get BOTH motors running, offer em $2K and the motor experts here will help you fix em up.

$5K is ALOT of money for a non-running boat, or even one with 20 year old power. There price sounds a bit high for this market to me with a SEA-DRIVE on it. The SEA-DRIVES themself are fine, but they do have some issues with virtually no parts availabilty anymore. OMC has long since been bought out by BRP, but even OMC quit making parts for em in the EARLY 90's. It sounds like an excellent bracket canidate with a nice used YAMAHA or MERC on the back in the 150-200HP range. That SEA-DRIVE weighs in close to 700 pounds in a V-6 configuration as a standard V-6 weighs almost 475 and the SEA-DRIVE mount alone weighs almost 250 pounds. Get a compression test on the engine to give you a baseline, and look to see if it looks like there has been any parts changers working on it recently. If in fact it is an 87, that is one of the better on fuel big loopers out there.