well boats been on the slip way up our club for just over a mounth now i only brought it in for what needed doing boat still there so removed the old cutless bearing as gone real bad it does not help with the real muddy water up hear its like valve grinding paste thats another story fitted new cutless and realign engine back to the shaft thats all done noticed a little oil leak coming from the exhaust manifold so pulled that of to fit a new one but when i took it of the gasket looked ok so next i took the rocker box of to find all the valve sealed all sitting differnt on the vales so ordered new head gasket top end set pulled the head of and it looks like the gasket give way from a oil port to the outside edge of the gasket took all the valves out new valve stem seals and had the seat all the valves again with valve grinding paste so put it all back together now just waiting on the big tides this weekend coming to see if its ok happy boating all