Awsome that's the type of guy you love to do business with! I that engine looks well taken care of in the pics. I think that every one has these problems at on time or another. One day I'll be loving the boat having a blast and in the course of ten minutes it all down the toilet and I want to leave it floating in the harbor. I ordered a fuel pump kit for my outboard and it came in on wed. so I picked it up and and went straight home to install it. Things were going to well and thats when I dropped one of the paper thin check valves down the back of my work bench ,
instantly my blood presure shot to around 350 over 150 and luckily I called the dealer and they had another one in stock so I bought the second kit and went home to finish the job. These thing can turn around on you in a hurry. You should have seen me last sunday when I thought that the brand new fuel tank had something clogging the pick up
I brought it home parked it and was so mad I couldn't see straight. The next day I calmed down and went to gettin' her fixed, a little of this and a little of that and its all better
People that call them pleasure boats have obviously never had one
Hope you get it back soon sounds like you will.