Since the motor is not water cooled I added cooling tubes to my ESC and put silicone on the ends to keep water out. She is now ready for the water! On my bros boat the drive dog was locked almost solid so we took it apart to find some kind of glue in there but ran smooth once it was all cleaned up, his motor alignment is also a little off so we will have to fix that at some point as well, not too bad though. All screws have to be gone over and checked because lots were loose, we also added loctite. I think I am also going to take all the hardware off and silicone them on just to make sure water does not get in, there is not much there from factory. It has a nice size flex shaft that is square on the end that fits into a cup in the propshaft... can you buy the square end cables? It also seems the drivedog is a hair too big for the propshaft because when you crank it down it goes crooked a bit so it makes it hard to get the prop to run true. I will get a new drive dog when I get some props and this should fix the small problem, I will run it as is first and see how it goes, will listen for vibes. Hatches are tape on and will need slight sanding on the bottom lip to make them fit perfect but that is easy. Quality of the hull and hardware I am happy with, the hulls of coarse are not going to be as good as the top brands but good none the less, the price is right. Well I can't think of anything else to say about them right now so I will post as it comes. 100% happy with my purchase so far! Oh by the way, motor alignment was perfect on my boat and my propshaft turned very smooth with no gunk in it. We also lubed up out flex shafts because there was no lube on them.