Hope that you found the missing impeller pieces.
Personally i always find a small ratchet with an extension and swivel easier to attach than fingers or pliers.
Whoever designed your installation should be shot.
The two vanes that were torn didn't actually separate, so we got lucky this time.
Yep, ratchet is what I'm having to use, but have little room for extension... and I have to use a mirror to guide the socket onto each bolt on that side.
I'm thinking I could
feel the hand screws easier than I can get a tool on the existing bolts.
Sure, installation could maybe have been better, but while there commonly are remote mounting kits for filters and so forth... I dunno how common that is for raw water pumps... and the more difficult one to service is outboard... with not much room for squeezing in there.
The builder could have used smaller main engines. Could have used different engines, maybe, where the raw water pump would be mounted inboard for both. (Any like that?) Could have made the beam wider. Could have placed the outboard freshwater tank on that side elsewhere, or could have reduced tankage.
Or on the genset, the maker could have used a different base engine...
Coulda woulda shoulda... But it is what it is...
So I'm looking for ways to make this particular chore easier without buying a different boat.
-Chris