Hope this one will assist other boaters..Last trip out with 18 ft. kenner and 115hp Johnson it catches on fire under the bonnent and the water around the lower unit..Grab fire extinguisher,<br />point aim and squeeze an NADA comes out..Guage shows full but all go juice had leaked out..Still felt heavy and was not empty but would not propel inards. Daaaa..Fire burned itself out fortunately<br />Moral..Buy a new fire extinguisher ever year or so.<br /><br />Same trip lost tire and wheel off single axel boat trailer..Sheared 4 of 5 lugs completely off before wheel came off and passed up towing vehicle. Reason? Over tightened lugs with 4 way lug wrench..Stressed them out and caused them to shear off...Correct torque for lugs seems to be 70 pounds..Was a new 3500 axel, new oil filled hub<br />new lug nuts, new wheel, new springs, new "U" bolts, and new tire..<br /><br />Bad trip other than we got home OK..BTW..Caught no fish either <G>
) load everything into the back of the truck and head to the place where they make trailers out on highway 90 near his house. We get there and the guy tells us all the measurements we need to take so they can fab a new axle for us. We head home to his house, off load the truck, get some tools, head to my house for my big floor jack and back out the 50 miles to the boat. We arrive and the boat is still there, jack it up, pull the old axle, take the measurments and go to a little country store and phone them into the trailer place. Then we drive 50 miles back to the trailer place where they have the new axle waiting (they were so nice to drop what they were doing and build us a new axle like that), pick up the new axle, go to dads house, load up stuff we'll need for fishing with the new axle and tools and stuff, and drive 50 miles back to the boat. We get there, install the new axle and springs, hitch up the boat and drive 500 yards to he lake. Fished for an hour or so, caught nothing and headed home. What a day 