Never bring the Brother-In-Law!!!!
 

O.K. so a couple of years ago I pooch a motor during a poker run while my bro-in-law was on the boat. He wins the best hand and doesn't even chip in for gas:hothead: Well Saturday I am running the big boat in a small/slow boat poker run, and I got bro-in-law, pop-in-law, and future sis-in-law(who has never been on a boat before) on board. Three quarters of the way through the run the port motor coughs a couple of times and starts to slow down. I bring it down to idle and it just cuts off. Try to start it and it cranks real slow, then won't even click:mad: So I limp back on the good motor and dock(interesting to say the least). At the dock I am getting no crank so I put the battery charger on for a bit. Motor cranks slow, but coughs, then starts with a little throttle. Then the noise comes on - LOUD noise. Shut it down, open the hatch, pool of oil under motor. And as an extra added bonus....a large chunk of cast iron the same color as the engine:eek:

Guess we'll see how fast we can get a reman engine and drop it in there-thank goodness access is easy to the engines.

So-moral of the story- NO FREAKIN BROTHER-IN-LAWS ON POKER RUNS!!!!!!!

Guess it's lucky both weren't on there or I would have crapped 2 motors:rolleyes:

Sounds like a classic case of hydrolock to me. Motor was probably hard to crank because 1 or more cylinders were full of water. When you put the extra juice to it and got it to start is when the real damage was done. Probably bent a connecting rod and/or busted the crank, windowing the block in the process. Take a good look at the exhaust for that engine before you ruin a brand new crate engine.

Hope your luck gets better. Maybe you should just stick to taking friends out on the boat in the future and avoid the in-laws all together! :eek: