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Originally Posted by Erik
Great pointers!!! The only soft spot I saw/felt is right at the step down into the cabin. He has a board there and I pulled it and felt it. I am unfamiliar with the TNT motor housing.  |
Soft spots are grounds for price negotiation, although fairly easy to repair and one in the step down is really not a structural issue. That striped non-skid pattern is also much easier to duplicate on a repair than the diamond pattern molded into gel coat like mine has.
TNT stands for trim-n-tilt; the motor is the white cylinder with wire coming out of it on the port side between the engine mount brackets. The two short cylinders are the trim cylinders and the long one is the tilt cylinder, which may have been overhauled, because top of it looks new and paint is different color, but hard to tell because of all the marine growth on the rest of it. I think that pump motor is the most likely thing to fail on that engine due to water getting into it thru rust holes. Sounds like a good guy that did the work on the motor! You might ask him about condition of the TNT system, because a good honest mechanic should look over entire motor to see if it's worth spending $ for a powerhead rebuild. Denny