V-drive oil leak

While cleaning up my boat getting ready to install a new steering cable, I noticed it had oil in the bottom of the hull. I cleaned everything up, and placed clean shop rags under the boat to sit for a week. The boat stays in the garage, so it was pretty easy to make sure this method would pick up the leak and not just precipitation.

What I found was the shop towels under the v-drive showed a few drops of oil. Here is the history on the boat. I owned this boat, a 1997 Nautique Super Sport for about a yr, sold it to a buddy and bought the boat back. During the time my buddy owned it, he changed the pump and the gasket on the bottom of the v-drive unit as it had a leak when I sold it to him.

Due to not being able to determine where exactly on the unit the leak is coming from and the boat being 15 yrs old, I think I want to pull the v-drive out of the boat and order a full gasket kit from Walters and just replace all seals/gaskets.

I guess what I need to know is how envolved is it to pull a V-drive on one of these boats and change seals. Is this something I can do myself or should I pull the unit and send it to Eric Lavine?

Anything I need to know before I attempt to pull the V-drive?

Thanks Pete, when pulling the v-drive am I better to pull the whole transmission and v-drive as one unit or is it easier to just pull the v-drive off the back?

I have pulled transmissions/transfer cases out of old FJ40's but never pulled one in a boat. I am thinking that if I have to pull the v-drive I might as well just do the whole unit and replace the rear main and transmission seals while I am there to make sure this problem goes away and I only have to do the job once. I hate oil leaks and will plan on changing the u-joints in the v-drive as well while it is all apart.