Have 89 2.3 vip. I toke it to get transom cable fixed, cause I tried doing it and didn't work. So paid a shop to fix my mess up and turn out they messed it up as well cable adjustment was all off. So toke it back to them to give em a chance to fix there mistake. Mind you I toke my outdrive off the first time by myself no problem, but getting it back on was a bear toke 3 of us. The pain was getting the u joint coupler into the u joint bellow. Fast forward week when the shop has it the first time guy called and said I need a new u joint bellow as the old was swollen due to grease and oil, cause he couldn't get the u joint coupler into the u joint bellow. So got the new bellow. Guy said slid right in no problem at all. Now fast forward another week I tooke it back to them to fix there mess up. I stayed there while they worked on it and one guy toke the outdrive right off no problem. Did the readjusting of transom cable and went to put outdrive back on. Well three of them couldn't get the drive on what so ever. The u joint coupler would slide right in but couldn't get it to go. Soo the had this younger kid start turning both motor mounts and couldnt get it aligned, Wanna guess what they did next? Grabbed a cherry picker hooked it up to the back of the engine lifted it a bit and few mins later drive slide right on! This is not right at all. I know this know after reading up on it. They said my transom has some rot and that caused it to not go in "this time" so now I'm thinking to myself I need to take this to someone else and have them look it over and align it right! what does someone else think?
