My boating season with the almighty Cadet came to a screeching halt Sunday. I lucked out bigtime, the lower unit took on some water and grenaded the pinion gear but the guy I bought the boat from had a spare block and lower unit. Picked that up from him for $40 and that gear case and contents are in better shape than mine were anyway. I'm rebuilding them today after work, hoping to get out on the big lake this week. Luckily the failure happened when I was still on Shellcamp just trolling around.
Is a pinion gear supposed to look like this?
lol!