Yes Boat was coming out of winter storage. Charge battery. Tilt and drain water. 1 second of dry engine idle before taking it off of trailer.
Ordered new parts. The decades slip by so easily and quickly. I am lucky that my motors do not need PM. They just keep running.
My small glass bowl filter started leaking in air bubbles. And the primer bulb lost check of one way flow. Difficult starting and running. 15 years ?
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My fish finders aremost important when I go very shallow to go into flooded ponds. I get the fish by trolling and casting.
I like using my experiences on where they should be. I use sonar when I need fish for a senior meal.
A funny about transom transducers set below the bubbly water under the boat hull at speed.
Set the ducer to 2 inches below the hull at the dock. Go out and do 30 mph? great sonar picture. And a 6 FOOT HIGH rooster tail.
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If as soon as you crank the starter motor. That big chokeplate swings WIDE OPEN or more than a 1/4" to 3/8" open. It will cause a LEAN COLD hard to start mixture. If the idle speed and idle mixture have been set with a warmed up engine ? The engine may be too lean and slow to start when cold...
You can also use the volt meter leads between the battery + post and the pump positive lead connection. It should be almost 0 volts with the pump running.
Same type of connections to check between battery negative post and pump negative connection. Post results with pump running.
I have done both ways. I use low cost basic fish finders Humming Birds and Garmin 150 side by side in Aluminum Lowes hull. No problems with both on at same time. Siliconed inside hull. You can mount a transducer in a glass bottom.
IF IF there is no double glass bottom with foam between the 2...
Does the electric choke close COMPLETELY ? If not. Then you have to do your gasoline squirting to start a cold or cooled off engine.
It is possible your float has become stuck in the wide open refill position. Due to gas drying out and refilling of the carb all winter.
First step is to get...
Insurance is useless as as hundreds of boats are slammed against the docks.
Those wakes destroy the metal hinges of floating docks.
LOOK AT ME !!!!
Great Lakes freighters are BANNED from making smaller wakes.
BUT BUT I am so special.
I am suspicious of that liquid sitting down there. Gasoline or water ? If gasoline ? you have filled the fuel lines to the carburetors You now have a difficult problem to solve. Turn off the valve that allows gasoline into the engine. Allow the puddle of gasoline to completely evaporate. Is...
Wake boats cause DAMAGE. And their over weighted boats cause MAXIMUM sized wakes with loud exhausts from straining engines.
12 hours each day they send waves into boats at docks.
Clean a flat 9" area that is close to the keel. Use anything to remove oil, grease, slime. Clean bottom of transducer. On transducer bottom. Place a 2" wide by 1" high blob of Silicone Sealant. PRESS it straight down to the hull skin. press STRAIGHT DOWN ONLY !! Do not wiggle or lift it up. Put...
Those inboard drives have the dreaded Marine Taper shafts. Can be unreal to remove. If the prop shaft did not have all the uneven places under the prop area made perfectly smooth. Before putting on a different prop. We have cut the prop almost all the way to the shaft to reduce the holding...
The person who put it on IS A JERK !! POUND it on !!!
Stupid D I Y people.
I had to borrow a electricians HYDRAULIC gear puller 1 time.
Sounded like a high powered rifle went off.
Stay off to 1 side for hand protection.
I like the, Bow Light does go above the horizon logic. Ny Chaparral has 0 bow lift. When floored from a dead stop. I use no drive trim at any time. The drive is VERTICALE to the water surface. It feels like a car from a dead stop.
