![]() ![]() Pat: every three years bellows and cable have to be replaced anyway. Sorry, carver 2557: only exhaust bellow (difficult but doable) and shift cable bellow may be replaced without removing gimbal. replace worned out hinge pins on twin outdrives Can you please recommend a trustworthy mechanic in the Melville/Huntington/Commack area for the following work: ![]() can you really replace a set of bellows on an outdrive without taking out the Gimbal ring and bell housing.Ģ. Put in about 50 hours on the boat ( which we've enjoyed ) and now I'm taking water on the new engine bellows which will cut my season short ( and most likely will look for a hopefully more honest mechanic ).ġ. Picked up the boat 2 months ago, in late June. I gave him the ok to proceed ( although very frustated at that point ). He then informed me that he would do the bellows on the drives using in a "classified way" which would cut the labor rate by half. At that point told him to STOP the bellows job and just do the engine work. ![]() For some reasons, during the repower process he informs me that my hinge pins on both outdrives were totally worned out and he couldn't remove them without an ADDITIONAL 8 hours of labor ( 4 hours per drive ). However, in the process of replacing engine and servicing outdrives, Mechanic stated to me that I need to replace all bellows during the repower job, which added another $ 2,000 of labor on top of the already agreed repower labor cost. Contracted a supposedly well reputated mechanic in the South Shore to do the job. Work was done during winter of 2010 getting ready for this season. During last season, one of the engine seized on me and I had to get new block ( New GM 350 block and swapped all parts from old to new ). Last year, purchased a very clean 1982 255 Amberjack ( with twin 305s ) from the great lakes area ( fresh water all its life) and brought to Suffolk County ( north shore ) long island. Hope to get some advise and recommendation from this forum as I think I may had been taken for quite a ride in labor cost. ![]()
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