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Jay,

Based upon your questions, I can tell you are new to boating and new to
maintaining your engine. I would recommend you find a mechanic who
would make an appointment to get your engine serviced, and ask him if he
let you watch him remove the prop and install the impeller.

While both of these projects are DIY projects, if you don't know what
you are doing, you can cause serious and expensive damages to the engine.

While he has the engine in the shop, it will be worth him do a complete
inspection and servicing the engine to make sure there are not other
problems. As one of the rec.boats regulars found out, not servicing
your engine correctly can result in some very expensive problems.

You are quite right. In fact that was what I was originally planning
to do. After all, the motor is more than 10 years old, and I should
have a mechanic to look it over. Unfortunately I am replacing the core
in the entire deck, and I am behind schedule -- meaning that the deck
is open to elements. Currently, I have a cover on the boat to keep
rain water from entering the core of the deck that I am fixing. If I
bring the boat to a mechanic, I will have to remove the boat cover (the
boat has a T-top and the boat cover is huge like a sail), and I will
risk getting unexpected rain water getting into the core of the boat
when the boat is sitting in the mechanic boatyard. Therefore, I am
really hesistate to bring the boat to the mechanic at this point, and I
need to finish winterizing the motor now before the weather is getting
really cold.

Luckily I am quite handy. Therefore, I should be able to replace the
impeller (with another person helping me to align the rods). Thanks
for the suggestion though.

Jay Chan

Best of luck to you.

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