Lower unit went KABOOM! Help please.

[michaelj1978]

4-6mph in 12 feet of water at the lake and the prop (stainless) hit a stump. Everything froze up. The flywheel would crank about 2 inches then stop and the prop wouldn't turn. I finally reached down there and moved it with my foot. Then cranked it again and it started, but you could hear gears grinding and I shut it back off. Raised the motor up and there was a golfball size chunk of the lower end missing about 6 inches back from the prop. All the oil and bits of metal oozed out.<br /><br />It's a 1995 50hp Evinrude. Can anyone help me find the part number or where to get a new lower unit.<br /><br />This happened on Saturday. I thought my weekend was bad enough when I was casting a worm with my GLoomis $200 rod and it snapped in half between the cork and the bottom eye hole.

 

[Dhadley]

Re: Lower unit went KABOOM! Help please.

Holy cow!! A G Loomis broke that easy? Glad I got a Star Rod. Obviously the extra bucks was worth it. I'm assuming they'll replace it for free, right?<br /><br />Oh yeah, the lower unit. Look right here on iboats. They have 'em.<br /><br />Sorry to hear about all the bad luck.

 

[TTravis]

Re: Lower unit went KABOOM! Help please.

G Loomis will replace the rod. You will probably have to pay for shipping. They've replaced a fly rod for me before. They were nice about it.<br /><br />I wish evinrude would replace lower units that way.