Took the boat out on Saturday for the first time this season. The following happened:<br /><br />1. Started great, idled at the dock for 15 minutes and went out onto the lake.<br /><br />2. Opened it up and started out across the lake. Noticed my AMPs had dropped to below 10AMPs, and was continuing to drop.<br /><br />3. Backed off on the throttle and the engine began to miss. So I killed the engine. <br /><br />4. As soon as the engine is shut off white smoke, smelling of burned plastic begins to bellow from the engine. <br /><br />5. I unhook the battery and remove the engine cover. The white smoke is comming from the flywheel housing.<br /><br />6. I troll home on my kicker but since I needed to pull my engine up to get home on the trailer I plugged the battery back in... this is when I noticed that something is still pulling current from the battery, as it sparks when I connect to the terminals.<br /><br />Does anyone have any ideas what happened and how much this is going to cost me?<br /><br />thanks.<br /><br />Eric
