Another bad day, part 2 - Yikes!

**Mark Poole ModVP** · 07-22-2021, 01:51 AM

Very expensive scrub.

**keefallan** · 07-22-2021, 03:41 PM

A little JB weld.............GOOD AS NEW

Little humor for ya.......

**Stoker1** · 07-22-2021, 05:24 PM

what.... no 'it'll buff out' comments?

Ok, so there it is.

**TooStroked** · 07-22-2021, 06:25 PM

We've got good news and bad news on your drive. When we drained it. Well, we didn't actually have to drain it. Anyway, we found some metal shavings. We also found blacktop. We think you may have run it dry. No problem though. We're going to put a few new parts in it and touch up the case and skeg. She'll be good as new. If you don't mind me asking, how long has your wife been driving your tow vehicle?

**89Talon18** · 07-22-2021, 07:31 PM

And you know people pulled up and took pictures and had a good laugh and drove away

**FUJIMO** · 07-22-2021, 08:12 PM

...its only flat on the bottom...

**mrichartz** · 07-22-2021, 10:50 PM

Its the same guy who towed this..
Towed behind an RV in park...lol

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**DangerNewb** · 07-23-2021, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by mrichartz

Its the same guy who towed this..
Towed behind an RV in park...lol

Wowza. Just to be clear, the RV wasn't in park. Haha. Insurance company should be able to play the dumb axx card and walk away.

**Will hedrick** · 07-23-2021, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Da Bull

I don`t see how the driver didn`t feel or hear that. It had to be loud.

I bet he was running glass packs or straight pipes lool

**bbezok** · 07-23-2021, 11:38 AM

Or driving a diesel truck, wouldn't hear or feel the drag.......

**rgsauger** · 07-24-2021, 07:21 AM

He’s going to at least need a new prop. That one will never balance.

**MattGreen** · 07-24-2021, 09:14 AM

I've actually seen this scenario first-hand at the Johnson/Evinrude dealership I used to work at. A family had towed their 16ish foot ski boat with a 70 Johnson hundreds of miles to the city. The motor had only been partially tilted, so they had not engaged the tilt lock. The trim system had a slow leak and it gradually bled down during the trip. They only noticed it dragging once the skeg was ground away, and the forward gear's bearing race was shooting sparks that other drivers noticed and flagged them to stop. Insurance bought them a brand new gearcase lol......

Matt