Shake down cruise gone bad
 

The shake down cruise in the Chesapeake went very bad when the submerged log hit the lower unit. It broke off the splash guard for lack of a better term. See attached. Has anyone successfully repaired anything like this?
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Re: Shake down cruise gone bad
 

I've used the gray Marine Tex on lower units before. I bet you could build it back up with that stuff.

Re: Shake down cruise gone bad
 

take it to a welder/fabricator and they will have it like new in no time.


Sorry to hear this happened on your first trip out.

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Ditto on what Trayder says. It's not even expensive. I had the back 4" of the cavitation plate of my wife's old 115 fabricated and welded after being struck by a car and it cost only $130 a couple of years ago..

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A welder is definitely the way to go. I've had to get skegs welded a couple fo times. It makes it a little easier on them if you can give them a tracing of what it should like like when done. If you can find another motor with the same leg, just trace the area back to a good reference point, like the back of the leg so that he know how big and what shape the piece he needs to weld on should be.

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As mentioned should be no problem and it doesn't bear much pressure

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It was a bad day but it could have bean a lot worse, you could have got to inside the casing. This is an easy fix for a welder that heliarcs aluminum. Basically someone that makes fuel tanks could take care of this.

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I wouldn't loose a lot of sleep over it, it's not going to hurt performance. The cavitation plate is above the water when your running. Though cosmetically......
Thats much better than a whole lot of other nasties that could of happened.