Posted by Whaler36340 on 04/21/17 - 11:32 AM
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butchdavis wrote:
There is no need to use a Mercury Dealer to do generic work on your engine. Any decet shop can change your water pump impeller.
Having said that, if the pressure is within specs there is no reason to install an impeller kit. Boyd's Marine sounds like an ethical operation that wanted to treat you right by not doing unnecessary work. They may also have figured you would rather grease your own zerks than have them do it at $100 plus per hour labor cost. This is a very busy time for shops and they try to use it to serve as many customer needs as possible. I would not write them off.
I think they were so backed up with easy money they didn't want to do any extras. I had an appointment for them to check the steering (and service) and they would not even look at the steering. They would not even turn the steering wheel to give me an opinion on the steering. I was perfectly willing to pay the $119 per hour for them to look at it. The "service advisor" told me that disconnecting the steering link still caused drag on the engine so they would have to remove the engine from the boat and remove the steering cable to check the steering. Either he was dumb/uneducated/lacked experience or he thought I was dumb. I lack experience in outboards but I am not dumb. I could easily see that once the link was disconnected it had no effect on the rest of the engine. I finally stopped trying to get threw to him. I can change my own water pump, I have done it a few times before, but I wanted them to do it. The engine and boat are a 2013 model and had never been serviced.
2013 Boston Whaler Montauk 150 with a 60hp Mercury 4s bigfoot.