Re: Impeller replaced, now no water pumped!
Well, I'm up and running again! I started the morning by checking water flow to the engine on the line that goes to the thermostat...nothing.
This meant that the issue had to be in the water pump drive. I removed the lower drive and turned on the water to the muffs. No water was coming up to the impeller! Turns out that I had a kink in the water hose going to the muffs! The internal cavity in the lower drive unit would not fill up to the impeller since it leaked out on the other side of the muff.
After realizing my stupidity I rushed out to buy another kit and had it installed in an hour...worked perfectly this time with the kink in the water hose fixed.
I'm chalking this off as a learning experience. I've never worked on a boat before and therefore never used muffs either. This is my first boat and I've only had it for a week. I've learned a lot in the past week already.
While the engine was warm I decided to work on some items I'm more familiar with. I changed the oil and dialed in the ignition timing.
I'm still uncertain why I had one impeller blade bent back the wrong way. This had me heading down the wrong track. May have happened during the impeller installation or I ratated the driveshaft counterclockwise during the drive installation.
To anyone debating doing this procedure, yes, a newbie mistake cost me more money. But I'm still way ahead than if I had paid someone else to do everything that I accomplished today.
When you are learning you either have to pay someone to teach you or you learn by your own costly mistakes sometimes.
Tomorrow is play day!
