Season over....tossed a rod...
09-30-2014 | 12:09 PM
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Nice post, you are a good dude
Addressing:
Fuel flow
Oil flow and cooling
water flow (volume and psi if non stock Merc)
Electrical - yes. electrical. Wanna know how many Cannon plugs, grounds (watch that new paint !), and variety electrical gremlins get created when replacing/rebuilding a motor.
As far as to read up on all this - there is much here but not at all organized. Best way to find them first is by finding motor broken or tuning problem threads. A lot of answers/questions given/asked by fellow members will be rigging related.
#1 thing to do - if you have a question, ask it ! No one will schit on you for asking. You will be schit on for not listening to advice and for not having some diagnostics of the problem at hand.
Like the famous: "My boat just died. What is it ?" kind of thread. Some things need to be chacked and some symptoms leading up to this, if any, should be shared with the question.
Overall, if you show you care, others will care with you.
Fuel flow
Oil flow and cooling
water flow (volume and psi if non stock Merc)
Electrical - yes. electrical. Wanna know how many Cannon plugs, grounds (watch that new paint !), and variety electrical gremlins get created when replacing/rebuilding a motor.
As far as to read up on all this - there is much here but not at all organized. Best way to find them first is by finding motor broken or tuning problem threads. A lot of answers/questions given/asked by fellow members will be rigging related.
#1 thing to do - if you have a question, ask it ! No one will schit on you for asking. You will be schit on for not listening to advice and for not having some diagnostics of the problem at hand.
Like the famous: "My boat just died. What is it ?" kind of thread. Some things need to be chacked and some symptoms leading up to this, if any, should be shared with the question.
Overall, if you show you care, others will care with you.
09-30-2014 | 12:11 PM
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09-30-2014 | 12:37 PM
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09-30-2014 | 12:38 PM
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Things go wrong even when you pay people that supposedly do this for a living. Buddy had new NA 489's built this spring. One motor would never build oil temp. Builder blamed sticking oil thermostat. Nope. How about no valve or plug in the filter pad bypass. From dyno to about 5 hours of in boat run time one motor had nothing in that hole. Which is nice...
09-30-2014 | 03:45 PM
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09-30-2014 | 03:47 PM
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Hopefully we are not talking about your new engines... If the same builder builds them, I will bet money they will fail again soon
09-30-2014 | 04:17 PM
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