That was what I was thinking Pappy, where I used to work we had an awesome machine shop with some of the best machinist I've ever seen. All I would have to do was drop it off tell 'em to shorten it by 5'', and say ,Yeah its a " Government Job" and there's a 12 pack in your future. :LOL2: I've been all over E-bay to try to locate to correct LU also crossed referenced part numbers but it seems that that drive shaft and LU for a standard transom was only made for 89 and 90 yr models, which makes it scarce. I'll try over at the aomci. The darn thing has a plug on the front to charge a battery, I wanna say 6 or 8 amp out put.
I know the shift shaft and the pick up tube for the water pump I can do myself,my main concern was the drive shaft being true and ballanced. I would really like to find a complete LU
I don't want to build up the transom simply because I want to be able to put it on different boats. AND I might sell it later on, wife just found out about the 9.9 I picked up that I didn't tell her about. [-X