bent prop shaft????????????????????

[BlackNitro2000DC]

Ok so i just went to test drive/pick up my first bass boat been using my dads till now....the boat is a 2007 skeeter zx225 with 225 yamaha v max hpdi same year. Ok so i take it out on the water everything is great i love it, it looks good, then i get it out of the water and while im looking at it i spin the prop and i notice that the prop shaft is bent. My dealer say that he will put a new shaft in in and have it ready in a couple days. He says the guy must have thrown a blade because there wasn't any visible signs of him hitting anything...My question is do i let him put a new shaft in and still buy the boat or do i back out of the deal. Im not a mechanic but i know that if it was bent it had to be sending a vibration into the motor, he doesn't know how long its been bent.....>WHAT DO I DO??????

[tennbass]

Personally, if the boat was a good buy. I would probably buy it, If !

You didn`t feel any unordinary vibrations when running it in gear.

Ask a Yamaha mechanic to look at it and give opinion?

Have the seller pay for replacing the prop shaft before you buy, if there is truly a problem he might see signs of other damage while doing the repair to the lower unit.

Just my 2 cents

[frogfishin]

Have em put the new shaft in and buy it.I threw a blade last year and bent the shaft and had to replace it.I also hit 3 different rock's barely on different occasions and had to replace the shaft on all them also,this was all last year.The yamaha shaft's are about as soft as licorice candy.

[basspro]

Its funny that I am reading this as I had just sold my 21 I class to a buddy at Cap City bass club that had the same problem. I had driven it for two years with a bent shaft that I was not aware of until after I had sold it to the ccbc member.

I never felt a vibration and Nixons Marine in Walla Walla never caught it either. So if the boat is a good deal and in great overall shape then I would get it.

Russ

[Chris225]

It doesn't always damage the prop when you bend the propshaft. I hit a stump and left no visable damage to the prop and bent the shaft.