Hydrostream Voyager lower unit problems

**shawn5** · 05-22-2023, 12:20 PM

Have 2004 Evinrude 250 with bobs low water pick up,Had the boat out yesterday running 65 mph plus,Motor has 136 hours,When I returned to the dock port side of lower where bobs nose cone connects had a quarter size piece of bondo that came off,Looks like water is comming out of the area bondo came out of.Any ideas?

**VkingMike** · 05-22-2023, 12:29 PM

How long ago was the lower conned?

I had this similar situation after getting my lower unit back from Bob's. They stopped responding to my emails and basically blamed it on me hitting something in the water.

**shawn5** · 05-22-2023, 01:19 PM

It looks like it was epoxied or bondoed after the cone was attached,Mind you this is about a quarter size piece that came off the middle of the lower unit at about the height that the cone attaches.I have pics but not sure how to attach.Thanks for the reply.

**VkingMike** · 05-22-2023, 03:06 PM

Anything like this? This was mine after the first time out.

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**derekfl** · 05-23-2023, 06:46 AM

It isn’t welded on. Just gonna have to add filler. JB weld. No bondo. Bondo holds up pretty good to air at 70 mph. Water? Not so much…. Might want to find the seam between cone and the unit and V it out and re-epoxy the seam. This doesn’t have to look perfect. It has to hold it on.

**shawn5** · 05-23-2023, 07:30 AM

Thanks for the responce,Doe's anyone favor one type of Epoxy over another,And yes the picture above with a small portion of epoxy,filler/ whatever looks similar to the debacle I got going on.

**VkingMike** · 05-23-2023, 08:31 AM

I used what was recommended by a few people on here to fix mine.

PC-7 two part epoxy

**derekfl** · 05-23-2023, 11:48 AM

JB Weld. Marine Tex. they both have a little filler in them to give it a paste consistency. maybe use shredded fibers in liquid epoxy. The other way to go is put a layer of glass mat over the nose one. But that makes it bigger, therefore slower.

**97mirage** · 05-24-2023, 08:47 AM

I had a similar issue with a coned OMC gearcase losing a quarter-sized piece and I repaired it with Marine Tex. Marine Tex is my go-to compound for these and other kinds of similar repairs on hulls and lowers. Has never let me down and you can shape it and sand it. Good stuff IMO.

**wideglide55** · 05-25-2023, 06:57 PM

You will get lots of practice patching it I have never seen a nose cone case that didn't pop chunks out from time to time never in 30 years of performance boating