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Weekend Damage Report
Damnit! I should have taken OSO member Chuck's offer to go to Lake Champlain with him today. At about 3:00 my cousin arrived from Long Island and we were going to take out the Skater for a cruise up the lake. When I fired up the starboard engine it made an AWEFFUL racket. I said, "boy that doesn't sound good" :rolleyes: . We headed out and eased it up on plane. Cruising along at about 50 or 60 the starboard motor was light on RPM's. We headed for home hoping it was just a bad plug or coil. I felt the plugs and one was barely warm. I pulled it, and it looked like it was sand blasted! :mad: All the other plugs looked GREAT! :cool: The top of the piston looked sand blasted as well. I was so disgusted we pulled it out of the water and I covered it up. :( :mad: Maybe I will pull the head tomorrow to look inside and see how bad it is.
Hopefully, it just burned a hole in the top of the piston and damage will be mild. Hopefully just a piece a dirt in the carb or similar. I bought these powerheads for longevity and run the fuel oil mixture rich, the jets fat, and don't run her WFO. Sometimes, it just ain't your day! :( |
Re: Weekend Damage Report
Originally Posted by Shane
Damnit! I should have taken OSO member Chuck's offer to go to Lake Champlain with him today. At about 3:00 my cousin arrived from Long Island and we were going to take out the Skater for a cruise up the lake. When I fired up the starboard engine it made an AWEFFUL racket. I said, "boy that doesn't sound good" :rolleyes: . We headed out and eased it up on plane. Cruising along at about 50 or 60 the starboard motor was light on RPM's. We headed for home hoping it was just a bad plug or coil. I felt the plugs and one was barely warm. I pulled it, and it looked like it was sand blasted! :mad: All the other plugs looked GREAT! :cool: The top of the piston looked sand blasted as well. I was so disgusted we pulled it out of the water and I covered it up. :( :mad: Maybe I will pull the head tomorrow to look inside and see how bad it is.
Hopefully, it just burned a hole in the top of the piston and damage will be mild. Hopefully just a piece a dirt in the carb or similar. I bought these powerheads for longevity and run the fuel oil mixture rich, the jets fat, and don't run her WFO. Sometimes, it just ain't your day! :( Hopefully ya didn't get a cylinder wall too:eek: If its that rich maybe its a intake leak? Good luck Rob :drink: |
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Good luck with it Shane! Intake leak is a likely culprit. If it makes you feel any better so far this year I have spun a coupler and threw a blade on a labbed prop. As if fuel isn't costing enough this year! Oh well, if it weren't expensive it wouldn't be a speed boat. :drink:
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Re: Weekend Damage Report
Just got home........starboard drive.....kaboom
actually wasn't bad was on my way home and only about 2 miles away. and I have another brand new one in the garage :D just don't have the ambition to change it to go back out tomorrow. today was first day in this year.........so something had to break. |
Re: Weekend Damage Report
Any time you have an engine that just doesn't sound or run right -- DON'T keep running it -- SHUT IT DOWN AND FIND OUT WHAT IS WRONG.
It is a lot easier on the wallet that way. |
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blew a starboard drive myself... other than that is was a great day...
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It is a lot easier on the wallet that way. |
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