Re: Quick question for bondo......
You know guys...... this whole thing is my fault to even to have gotten it started. First off, I appreciate the fact any of you took "your time" and shared your "thoughts and knowledge" with me, in the first place, no matter what you seem to think of each others advice. I'll look at it all and appreciate your thoughts, make my decision, and go with it. It's all solid advice!!! I'm probably overthinking this. Advice given is gave not knowing the background of the person asking it, and probably needs to be answered as so. First, I've spent a ton of time with my son, so much, I don't have much time for other things. Second, I could probably get a Baja if I wanted but I'm not the type to want to travel like a pack of hyennas, w/that look at me, traveling up river as fast and noisy as possible attitude. I doubt I will offend any of their yuppy asses(Upper Mississippi River group), as I doubt they've probably ever looked on a sight like this.... everything is serviced I'm sure. They could charge their dumb asses triple and they don't know enough about boats to do anything about it anyway. That said, at almost $100/hr., I think that's a little too much, cause they aren't doctors and lawyers doing this. They should be at a rate around double the mechanic. So it's more so, just a matter of principle for me and I can and will do it. Next to last, I've been doing it by the book for the last 15 years with my 3.0 w/AF w/o any problems. I seen this dry method mentioned and thougth it'd be great not to have to screw w/AF. The dry way just seems too simple to not be "the way it's done everywhere", so of course, I've got to wonder, why isn't it???? I'm looking past the obvious in poking out the holes and make sure to be getting the water out, as there must be something else that people do, to screw up this simple procedure and freeze/break something. And of course I am wondering if there are spots in the engine, etc., that could cause this, even though it's done right. I should have titled this: Why doesn't everyone winterize their boats dry and what is it they do wrong, when they screw it up and freeze/break something? instead of: a quick question for bond-o, which after I thought about it, I should have never addressed a question to begin with. Maybe I've taken something easy and tried to make it hard. Maybe MerCruiser reccomends AF because they don't know who might attempt it. Lastly, maybe it's time to put this one to rest...... and my next trip back around my boat, I'm tilting the front up a smidgion, putting the plugs in very loose and leaving it the way it is (dry) as I think I did it that way last year and it worked just fine. Next year I'll chop off the top and my 35 gal. barrel and get some plastic sheeting, attach to barrel, trim to match up with the back of the boat to catch AF, and have myself piece of mind for the next 11 years til it's time to move by the ocean someplace warm get a sailboat!!!! And the best thing would have been for me to take it in and spend some of my moldy money, and just had it done. Thank you all for your thoughts, info and time!!!!
you would think we were working with nuke waste
