Jmoore007
New Member
I just bought a 2003 sea ray 320. When I drove the boat to the dock to be taken out of the water to be bottom painted I noticed vibrations in the boat at full throttle. This boat has V drives. Once out of the water the mechanic said the both propellers were bent and had nicks in them and needed to go to he machine shop to be reworked. Fine, $700. Then he said he measured the shaft tolerance and one was within the .003 max tolerance and the other shaft was just outside at .004. $2500 to replace shaft. It is so close to max tolerance is this replacement really necessary? If the new props solve the vibration problem do I still need to replace the shaft? Boat has 195 hrs on engines. Thanks.