about two days after that my uncle was moving his seiner around the harbor and all of sudden he lost the ablility to shift so he managed to get it over to the dock and he gave me a call to come look at it. i get down there and the first thing i do is check the oil level in the gear. ( its an 514 twin disk gear too) the oil was not even showin on the dipstick so we started to fill it back up. i added about 3 gallons and but it still wasnt showin up on the stick so then i figured i should check the bottom of the gear and the fittings down there for leaks. but before i could do that i had to get all the water/oil/ whatever else  out of the bilge since it pretty much sat right in it. so after pumping out enough stuff that filled up two 55 gallon drums i was finally able to see the bottom of the gear to inspect it. and the very first thing i saw was the draw for the pump which was a 1/2 inch pipe 90 regualer black steel with about half the side of  it just corroded away. so after getting that off and replacing it with a stainless steel one. we drained the oil changed the filter and reflilled it and ran it for 10 min. then drained it and changed the filter again and filled it and and ran it for about hour then i noticed two of the hoses were leaking so we had to change those out ( none of the fittings or the hoses looked like they had been changed in a very long time). after that we took it for a sea trial and ran it for 5 hours and came back in and changed the oil and filters agian. then did one more sea trail for 8 hours and came back in and changed it it came out looking clean. we will probably end up rebuilding it during the winter after fishing season.

time total for job: 44 hours

total hours:165