thanks for the replies. I'm having someone fix it for me basically they have a flat fee to take it apart and put back together. So to replace the worn items they just charge for the parts so I'm probably going to have a lot of the items replaced. They think it might be the outdrive well see. The outdrive is 2 years old that I replaced my self with one of those se drives. It has a 3 year warranty, I really don't think its bad when I pulled the boat it wasn't even warm. I've pretty much been a do it yourselfer all my life but sometimes its nice to have someone else do the work. I should know in the next couple of days whats wrong with it. My boat is 9 years old and has about 900 hours on it.