transom shield installation

[antonius]

I have water leaking into the boat from somewhere at the top of the inner transom plate. Last summer I did some maintenance and repairs on our Campion speedboot with Volvo Penta SX-C drive and 3.0 GL motor. During cleaning and polishing I removed some sort of kit around the transom shield, what maybe caused the leakage. I bought the boat some years ago and it was second hand but still looked brand new.​ Maybe the boat was 'repaired' this way by the previous owner?

Looking into the problem I noticed that the plate is connected to the shield with only 6 nuts. At the top there are two unused holes in the plate. While in an online manual "Volvo Installation Sterndrive Gasoline Engines" I see the plate is connected with 8 nuts.

Is my shield assembly right installed, or are the 2 nuts indeed missing?




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[antonius]

I'm not sure if the pictures are visible in mine post, so I try again

 

[StingrayMike]

I just replaced mine this weekend. I have SM-M , GXI-F
the old plate and new are only mounted by the 6 bolts through the transom, there are 2 unused holes at the top for other ttransom through bolts, but there 2 bolts that bolt directly to the outer transom shield.
repost your pics so we can not take a better look.