Thanks for all of the advice. Unfortunately I had them fix it right away due to being in a tournament soon. I will call mercury and take pictures myself of the lower unit along with the prop and see what they have to say. The original claim was that I locked up the prop on a rock and caused the gears to strip. The thing I don’t understand and am getting irritated with is the prop and lower unit have no dings which I think is hard to hit something and not ding it. Well see how it turns out but thanks for the advice.