went fishing last weekend for all of an hour went to make a run and lost my lower unit... got me far enough from ramp that it was about a 5-6 hour troll/drift back. to the best of my knowledge this is the second lower unit put on this boat. when i bought the boat the guy told me that he had replaced it a few years earlier... and i've had it for 2 years now.

motor is a 1996 225 johnson gonna be 2600 for new lower unit...
found a used 2001 225 optimax for 4200

any help or advise would be great!!
thanks