Yes, it is stored in a garage.
There could have been a little water left inside but not that much. You could definitely feel and see the oil mixture. I "powerwashed" it with superclean and a jet tip on a hose last Nov after picking it up at your house.
Evidence: well I could only barley touch the grommet and underside of tank with my finger and paper towel. It did show lots of dirt/oil residue.
I replaced the grommet on my 787 GTX this past summer but there is plenty of room to work compared to this thing.
Is there an easier way to check W/O taking the oil tank out?......Sabr....any tips for me??
Trailer has a tag from the maker and it's readable but the state of Florida has no record of it ever being registered so they want a letter from the 2 previous owners stating they bought it......I can get the 2nd owner but not the first. I tried the maker but they changed data systems back in 2000 -2001 and they lost they record of this trailer. But they did tell me how much it weighs GVW minus another number on the tag = the weight. I don't know if the state will take that number 1050 - 900=150. I'm going to ask Rampage if his work "Action Kawa..." in Bradenton could lift it off for me and keep it for an hour or so.
If I do it this way should I remove the original tag from the manufacturer?????? or won't it matter?
well in that case you can safely assume the grommet and I could be wrong, but wont' the oil tank come out thru the hood if you needed to remove it ? (drain, clip line, remove tank, replace grommet, re install) if it won't come out thru the hood, you've got some work ahead of you lol can't you get a light down there to get a good look at it, usually if the grommet is leaking you'll see a trail of oil, unless its leaking down the side, then running under the engine, and working its way to the back by the bailers due to gravity.
re: trailer, i'd go with the plan B... drop it off somewhere for an hour... get it weighed, manufacture a bill of sale if needed, well, i don't recommend that but i've heard that some people in the past may have tried and been successful with such ideas) even somebody with an empty pwc trailer could just back up to yours, winch your ski over to his, hold it for an hour, and when you get back, you just winch it back over to your trailer, all legal and nice. (sounds easy, i have two empty's but its still been a month and I haven't gotten around to doing just that, but i'm extremely lazy and never feel like blowing off a half a day on such a stupid project...)
Then i'd remove the tag, but only if the new registration doesn't match the tag, so if you have a super duper diligent police officer some day a year from now, you won't have any numbers to compare. but... the tag office 'should' use the trailer ID # you provide them, if not they'll register it as homemade, create a fictitious vin for you and give you a registration/tag, if they do that, then remove any stickers that don't "match"
its a cheap part, i think new oem its like $20 shipped (don't quote me on that)
