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An update to the A4 saga:
I had a mechanic pull the old motor and install a rebuilt one from moyer marine. The price was about $8,000 and I removed all the cabinetry myself which took several hours. One downer was that it took a month to get the job done because the mechanic was not on the job as quickly as I would have liked. There was a $1,000 shipping fee (part of the 8,000) and $1,000 in labor and parts with a new exhaust riser. Now I'm cruisin'. If I had it to do over I would have tried to do it myself, but this was my first boat and everything was new to me (I didn't even know what an exhaust riser was). In the end I was pretty involved in the process and spent alot of time following wires and hoses and figuring out what was what and where everything went. At this point there is very little mystery to the whole thing. One thing I really appreciate now is the motion of the transom above the water in swell and I am happy to have a propellor a couple of feet beneath the boat. The montery bay can be abit rough at times.
Thanks to all for your advise and comments. This is a really valuable forum.
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