Boat work and homemade transom saver

[Fritzfishin]

Well I bought a used Honda 20hp last year. Its in great condition so I ran it all last open water season without a hiccup or looking at it... decided to change the lower unit oil today to get ready for the flotilla and was shocked to drain out about 4 or 5oz of what looks like black oil from a diesel engine. So I drained it all out and filled it with fresh new oil, checked and cleaned the spark plugs greased everything real good and then built a homemade transom saver out of all thread and some treated 2x4. Pretty satisfied with it. With my new transom I just got done with its ready to go... my neighbor is welding me a new stainless top cap for the transom to.  Last year I could tell the transom was bad so id put the motor in the back seat of my truck each time I went out... what a pain!!!