I had the same symptoms and hoped it was a spun prop. It wasn't the prop, it was the drive coupler slipping on the back of the motor. An ugly thing to replace but got it done. Of course it happened 40 miles from home. Had to come back at 8 MPH.
One tell tale of a spun coupler is smelling burning...
I gave a quote to a customer for an almost complete rewire on his 32' Bayliner. This boat has had a rough life in the hands of a backyard mechanic. Yesterday he brought the boat into town for me to start working on it and I went down to the marina to go over all that had to be done.
While we...
I used to work for an aluminum boat manufacturer doing the rigging and electrical on the new boats. A customer brought in his 6 month old boat to have some additional equipment added and to have a wierd electrical problem looked into. He claimed that whenever he keyed the VHF mic, the anchor...
The boating season is coming to an end and I am already getting requests to winterize customers' boats. I have a dry land repair facility, ie. not on the water, and get 50 to 60 boats through here for prepairation for winter storage. Despite all my requests to customers, I still get at least 10...
Re: How close do you live to your waterway?
About 40'. :D
We couldn't afford the $M+ for a waterfront home so we did the next best thing and got a waterfront ground floor condo. The pic below is from our patio which is sheltered fom the elements. With the patio heater on we can sit out there...
I was strapping down a customer's boat that I had just picked up at a small private launch ramp. A young guy and his girlfriend show up with a Mustang towing a 17' ski boat. He jumps in the boat and she tries to back it down the ramp but with absolutely no success. He's yelling at her, she's...
Has anybody here installed a TrollMaster TM208D throttle control on a 2010 Suzuki 9.9?
I have a customer who brought me one to install and I cant get the throttle contol linkage to work. The throttle link rod interferes with the intake housing. Did Suzuki change the powerhead castings in the...
You know Ol' Murphy, "Whatever can go wrong........"
On Tuesday I flew down to Point Roberts with a customer to pick up his new-to-him 30' Commander. Nice boat, in good condition that had complete mechanical and hull surveys done. Twin Volvo AD41 diesels and Duo-Prop legs.
We did the 5 hour...
I had to do some work on a customer's boat electronics yesterday. It's a 4 year old, 36' cruiser probably in the $400K range new.
So I start looking for access to the backside of the main instrument panel at the lower helm and there isn't one. The only access is through the 2 smallish switch...
We are running a fleet of 5 Yamaha 225 and 250 four stroke outboards on our guide boats. They are getting up in hours and it's time to start repowering. These motors are running every day during the 5 month fishing season at a remote lodge on Vancouver Island. To keep downtime to a minimum, we...
I have a friend's F250 sitting in my shop that has a dime sized hole almost dead center in the top of #6 piston. The motor is used pretty hard and has about 1100 hours on it but it has had full maintenance done at least every 100 hours using premium quality 15w40 oil and OEM filters. This motor...
