Boat won't GO. Need help, advise, anything

[hillbillyboater]

Re: Boat won't GO. Need help, advise, anything

That's what I was afraid of. Well I guess that's what I get for trying to save some money by having my buddy help me winterize my boat. He told me today he didnt know anything about filling it from the middle plug. Damn, some things are learned the hard way. Thanks for the help.

 

[HT32BSX115]

Re: Boat won't GO. Need help, advise, anything

That's what I was afraid of. Well I guess that's what I get for trying to save some money by having my buddy help me winterize my boat. He told me today he didnt know anything about filling it from the middle plug. Damn, some things are learned the hard way. Thanks for the help.

Yeah. It's a bummer. You've joined a rather large "club" though.........

Same thing happened to my previously installed King Cobra.... And it was a "dealer" that did it !!!

 

[hillbillyboater]

Re: Boat won't GO. Need help, advise, anything

I would be UPSET if a dealer did it, although I would expect them to fix it, too bad I have only myself to blame haha. I am taking the boat to the repair shop on Wednesday to see what they say and see how much it is going to run me to have them fix it vs doing it myself. I am about to order the OEM manual now to see just how big of a do it yourself project this would be. When I first heard the noise the drive made, I thought, "wow that sounds like it is going to be expensive" and sounds like I was right.

 

[HT32BSX115]

Re: Boat won't GO. Need help, advise, anything

Yeah. My brother owned the boat at the time... It actually happened twice!!

Once filling the drive wrong and once not filling it at all! ..........Different dealers too (one was a Four Winns Dealer!!)

To their credit, BOTH replaced the drive with no lawyering-up



.....I probably would have checked the oil before I ran it just to be sure but filling it from the bottom traps a rather large bubble inside and it might not have made it's way to the top either.....(In reality, I would have NEVER let a dealer change the drive oil!!!)

You're sort of between a rock and a hard place now.

I don't think you want to try to rebuild a Cobra yourself. Even with a complete service manual there's a fair amount of specialized tools that you MUST have to make it all work...

People that rebuild them either have a fair amount of experience or they went to the OMC school house. (not a lot of those people left now though)


By the way, let your "Buddy" know what happened so he knows before he "helps" someone else!!!