scottyau

So the last post left off here: Just like the thermostats housing before it, there were a couple of issues.  The bolt holding the lower anode in snapped when I tried to remove it.  The irony there is that it didn't need to come out to remove the lower section of the outboard.  There were also a couple more serviceable parts that needed to be replaced once I had the lower section off, which meant waiting a week or two for more parts to arrive.  Add to that a crazy couple of weeks at work and this past weekend was the first chance I had to get Dusty back together.  When the lower section came off a few weeks ago, it looked like this: First thing was to clean it all up.  There was a lot of sand and gunk in there, the seals on the exhaust adapter between the lower and upper section of the outboard had melted away and I needed to get that snapped bolt out to replace the rear anode (the anode was now loose and would have made a fair bit of noise vibrati...