Mercury 15" Sportmaster 1.87 2.5L

**MaDneSS** · 03-23-2023, 02:30 PM

15" Sportmaster from 2005 2.5 Mercury.

Very good condition

Heavy duty input and propshaft

1.87 gear ratio

Brand new water pump (Housing,impeller and wear plate)

$3000

**MaDneSS** · 03-24-2023, 10:22 AM

Sold in under 24h, must have been too cheep ! ��

Thanks scream and fly

**wcarlyle** · 03-24-2023, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by MaDneSS

Sold in under 24h, must have been too cheep ! ��

Thanks scream and fly

Yeah, good price if in good condition, and on top of that hard to find a nice one.

**25two.stroke** · 03-25-2023, 11:04 AM

Small propshaft and straight skeg...I'm surprised it sold that quick but good for you! It does look clean.

**MaDneSS** · 03-25-2023, 12:19 PM

It is the race shaft, heavy duty larger bearing carrier , with hardened steel shaft not the weak stainless shaft.

**25two.stroke** · 03-25-2023, 12:22 PM

Its still the small shaft. 15 spline not 19 spline. Most people running straight skegs are on twin outboard boats and they want the fat shaft. Not that it matters, obviously someone wanted it. Easy enough to swap the shafts though, a fat shaft will go right in there with no other changes.

**rockit** · 03-25-2023, 01:21 PM

It's not a straight skeg- look at the middle pic- clearly a factory "swept skeg" aka right hand toque tab

**rockit** · 03-25-2023, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by 25two.stroke

Its still the small shaft. 15 spline not 19 spline. Most people running straight skegs are on twin outboard boats and they want the fat shaft. Not that it matters, obviously someone wanted it. Easy enough to swap the shafts though, a fat shaft will go right in there with no other changes.

Straight skegs are found mostly on left hand gear cases and not everyone wants to re- hub all of their props to fit a "fat shaft" gear case if they have all standard shaft hubs in their props

**25two.stroke** · 03-25-2023, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by rockit

It's not a straight skeg- look at the middle pic- clearly a factory "swept skeg" aka right hand toque tab

Damn! It is. I shoulda bought it then!
Hard to see that tab. Its a swept skeg that someone cut the trailing edge of the skeg off straight like a straight skeg. Illusion of a straight but really it does have a built-in tab!

**rockit** · 03-25-2023, 04:40 PM

They all look like that, "small" leading edge graduating into the swept skeg- I have three of them and they all look exactly the same....

Originally Posted by 25two.stroke

Damn! It is. I shoulda bought it then!
Hard to see that tab. Its a swept skeg that someone cut the trailing edge of the skeg off straight like a straight skeg. Illusion of a straight but really it does have a built-in tab!

**25two.stroke** · 03-25-2023, 06:19 PM

I'm not talking about width of the skeg and torque tab, I'm talking about the overall length of the skeg leading edge to trailing edge.

**graynester** · 06-30-2023, 10:02 PM

man this is an entertaining read!!

more pl

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**aggiestckl** · 07-01-2023, 09:25 AM

Tell you one thing, that aint worth no $3k

**gmorgan** · 07-03-2023, 04:37 AM

Based on the condition of the housing and the fact no more are being made, it’s worth what a willing buyer will agree to pay a willing seller. By selling so quickly, it appears to have been worth closer to 4K.