Yup you guessed it. Gearcase took a dump. Appears to be the needle bearing under the water pump. No boating for me today. Dang it!
Well the good news is what sounded like a knock in the motor isnt? More good news is I happen to have a spare gearcase, on my puked '86 90hp. Which is actually newer than '86, bleve it's a '90 or '91. Plus I also have the origional '86 case with the broken driveshaft.
So ... the plan is to go through the newest one first and pirate parts as/if necessary from the others. Shouldn't need much, never had a problem with that one.
Hope not to be drydocked for too long. Else I start gettin really 'cranky' ... Don't you? Heh heh heh