MOP
05-12-2004, 08:02 PM
As some of you know I was a marine tech a real long time, when I get anything that will be used in on on the water I pull the bolts and screws tap the threads run a die on the bolts and screws then reassemble with non hardening gasket compound. Well today was going through the routine on my BH drive, one thing that bothered me from from the day I bought the drive was the water intake was loose in the housing. So I removed the screws to see what I would do to end the problem, when I got it off I thought what a nicely machined item they were. But after looking the cavity over Mercury Marine never meant for the drive to be left in the water, the support flange for the intakes and the water passage appear to be raw aluminum as far as I could see into it. The support flange for the intakes is about .050 thick and should bee treated to save it from salt and or electrolysis damage. Kind of bummed me out that Merc did not properly coat the area like any other decent manufacturer would.