they probably noticed you carrying a bat...

" Hello Sir...I am RAM and I have a grandfather claused

Guaranteed lifetime agreement...and...I have this here BAT to back it up with..." (They all seem to come around to his way of thinking very quickly)

I ain't talking about the bait tank pump, or the wash down pump. I'm talking about the actual water pump inside the outboard. Gotta drop the lower unit. Looks like 5 bolts, one under the zinc, but to get it all lined back up looks tricky.

code for Mary Palmer...

Then jacked the rear up to start on the brakes. Didn't have a big enough torx bit. Asked neighbor to borrow one. Got the calipers off but couldn't get em separated. The slider bolts are seized. Also, one parking brake shoe is cracked.

So, need to order more parts, and the simple job just got a lot bigger.

Before I do, gonna see if my buddy that does big truck and bus work if he can give the calipers a whack with his big impact gun, see if they can be broken loose without being broken. Might even just pay him to do the whole job.

HD pickups are nice, but all the components are so big it's hard to work on em from my driveway.

Decided to try at the front brakes.

Everything's seized up hard. Torch, 5lb hammer, PB Blaster, 3 foot breaker bar. I exploded my 21mm socket.

Guess I gotta pay to get it done. I'm too lazy to keep fighting with it. I could do it, just need more tools.

The lovely Midwestern rust belt.

wait. you tried all those things and decided you're lazy?

I had to take a nap in the middle of reading it.

Don't think I was that productive back when I still had youth and energy enough to gut and remodel a house

IIRC, the outboard water pump also uses a jabsco impeller. I don't recall the alignment being all that difficult on the ones I serviced.

What would Vishnu say?

doncha jus hate those guys...almost always easy-going, but once they lose it and the bigger the beef, the louder they talk and the harder they are to understand...