aneely
New Member
Any insight would be appreciated.
I recently purchased a used 1994 230DA and I'm just beside myself right now. After about the third short trip out on the boat the coupler failed on me. I just had the coupler replaced last month, a $$$$ job, and took the boat out yesterday for the second short trip since the repair was done and it failed again. My understanding is that a coupler is suppose to last for a very long time if properly maintained. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could have caused me to go through two couplers in under 4 months? Is there something possibly a miss in the out-drive that could cause the failure? I'm definitely going to take it back to the guy who just replaced it and demand he make it right but I'm wondering if there is another underlying problem I should have someone else take a look at once I get it back again.
Thanks,
Andy
I recently purchased a used 1994 230DA and I'm just beside myself right now. After about the third short trip out on the boat the coupler failed on me. I just had the coupler replaced last month, a $$$$ job, and took the boat out yesterday for the second short trip since the repair was done and it failed again. My understanding is that a coupler is suppose to last for a very long time if properly maintained. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what could have caused me to go through two couplers in under 4 months? Is there something possibly a miss in the out-drive that could cause the failure? I'm definitely going to take it back to the guy who just replaced it and demand he make it right but I'm wondering if there is another underlying problem I should have someone else take a look at once I get it back again.
Thanks,
Andy