Anyone ever seen a yamaha TLR lower unit on a F225?

[bly]

I recently picked up a 2005 F225 and after hanging the engine on the boat{on trailer still} I decided to install new waterpump kit, Also change gear oil. Right off I couldnt find the lower plug to drain the gear oil? It was under a black plastic water pickup screen. Then I started taking the waterpump apart after dropping the lower unit. No problem til I found out my factory waterpump kit was not a match to the pump and lower unit? I went back to my yamaha parts man and he never saw one either? We ended up calling yamaha factory and they told where onlin to find the lower unit! Its called a TLR and it was made for skinney water apparently? Anyone ever had any dealings with these? Its not what came standard on a 2005 F225 from what yamaha said. Infact he wanted to know where I got it? The world wide web of course. I didnt look the engine over real good because I picked it up for $3,500. and felt like a thief leaving for that price. Anyone have any experience with one of these lower units? What else is different besides the pump and pickups?

[HOTSPOT]

Did not even know they made such an animal.

[Chisox]

Seems like the TLR LU was a part of the Vmax bass boat motor. If it was a direct bolt-up to the 225 mid-section, I guess you would call it someone's "hybrid"...

[bly]

Seems like the TLR LU was a part of the Vmax bass boat motor. If it was a direct bolt-up to the 225 mid-section, I guess you would call it someone's "hybrid"...

Osprey I found out some more on it. Its a 2006 or newer 250 hp Lower Unit because it has both the standard normal pick ups and two more at the level of the prop. The Vmax bass boat motors, has only the low ones? how it got there and why yamaha was so intriqued is enougher question?