"Tim" wrote in
oups.com:

I don't
know if they are better or worse, but they have a one year warrenty for
less than $800.00 , a book, and do it myself.


Outdrives scare me. I like a little more between me and the sea flooding
in around me than a rubber diaphram....

I heard a woman frantically calling for help on 16 last summer. She was
screaming about the boat flooding and someone got her to beach it on one of
the harbor's little islands before it sank. The diaphram in her outdrive
had ruptured, probably from lack of proper maintenance, and water was
flooding in around the drive. She was OK after the grounding.

Every time I see an outdrive underwater at the marina here in the salt
water, I swear I can hear something fizzing away underwater as the sea
consumes amazingly expensive parts you can't flip up out of the water like
an outboard. Today I was staring down into the jet pump on an amazingly
expensive Hinckley jet-powered picnic boat and wondered what all the
corrosion was about on the amazingly expensive jet parts I could see in the
murky salt water.....fizzing away, too?...(c;