"I took my boat, 1997 Maxum 23
"I took my boat, 1997 Maxum 2300 SC, 5.7l Mercruiser in to be winterized last November. boat has 400 hours and I am diligent about maintenance. The boat ran perfectly all last summer, no issues at all. Mechanic called to inform that while doing the oil change they noticed water in the bottom of the oil but the water and oil had not mixed..upon further inspection they discovered a head gasket leak and said my valves were rusty. Recommendation was to have the heads machined and a valve job and carb rebuild, total was $2,300.00
I took it out for the first time at the end of April and broke down, had to be towed back in. Diagnosis was carb issue, they did the rebuild again at no charge. I insisted that the mechanic take the boat out with the marina owner before I set foot on it. They did and said it ran great. I took it out 3 weekends ago and it ran perfectly, no overheating at all. Went down there 2 Saturdays ago to pick it up and it would not turn over, all I got was an awful metallic grinding noise. The next Monday I get a call and was told that there was oil in the exhaust, water in the cylinders and water in the oil. Diagnosis, cylinder wall cracked and the engine siezed. Price to fix, $4,000.00 , $2,800.00 for the long block and $1,200.00 for labor. And I guess we misdiagnosed the problem initially....
My question is, is it possible for the boat to run perfectly with a cracked cylinder wall? Something doesn't seem right.
Forgot to mention, when they put the boat in the rack to dry store over the winter, the forkift driver ran it into one of the beams and bent my bow rail back darn near to the windshield. they did fix that at their expense"
"I took my boat, 1997 Maxum 2300 SC, 5.7l Mercruiser in to be winterized last November. boat has 400 hours and I am diligent about maintenance. The boat ran perfectly all last summer, no issues at all. Mechanic called to inform that while doing the oil change they noticed water in the bottom of the oil but the water and oil had not mixed..upon further inspection they discovered a head gasket leak and said my valves were rusty. Recommendation was to have the heads machined and a valve job and carb rebuild, total was $2,300.00
I took it out for the first time at the end of April and broke down, had to be towed back in. Diagnosis was carb issue, they did the rebuild again at no charge. I insisted that the mechanic take the boat out with the marina owner before I set foot on it. They did and said it ran great. I took it out 3 weekends ago and it ran perfectly, no overheating at all. Went down there 2 Saturdays ago to pick it up and it would not turn over, all I got was an awful metallic grinding noise. The next Monday I get a call and was told that there was oil in the exhaust, water in the cylinders and water in the oil. Diagnosis, cylinder wall cracked and the engine siezed. Price to fix, $4,000.00 , $2,800.00 for the long block and $1,200.00 for labor. And I guess we misdiagnosed the problem initially....
My question is, is it possible for the boat to run perfectly with a cracked cylinder wall? Something doesn't seem right.
Forgot to mention, when they put the boat in the rack to dry store over the winter, the forkift driver ran it into one of the beams and bent my bow rail back darn near to the windshield. they did fix that at their expense"