yeah but my eyes do!!!

Now THAT is a true statement!!:D

YEA but my DIGITAL FLUKE meter reads out in big numbers so you know exactly how hot it is and you can record how hot it got.

:D :D

Well, I finally found out why the EGT didn't work. I was hoping it was a bad sensor (new) but found the #2 cylinder dead.
After "it's final...Meltdown" earlier on the port engine I was hoping for better news but not so......I'll pull the starboard engine in a couple of weeks...... but winter is arriving early here so I pulled the boat to winterize the port engine, hooked up the hose to the low water pickup and started the engine......2-3 minutes later I smelled hot rubber !!! found no water was being pumped to the engine!! So I now have a bad impellor also on the "new" engine!! I just can't win this summer.
I hope never to repeat this summer again:mad: :eek: :( :) !!

blown formula,

Man that sucks!!!! :( :( I am sorry to hear about your delima. It seeems like it is time to step back and forget for a couple of weeks and then hit it again. Not much consolation, but when my stuff breaks, I go play with my grand daughters.. That puts things in perspective. It will come together, just keep at it. I spent two summers like yours and it will come and go. Just dont let it get you down. I did manage to run 50+ hrs this year, but the drive is in need of repair again. So I know where you are coming from.. but I am determined to get this right.. what ever it takes. The reason?? IT's a Hobby!!

good luck

Dick

Mr Gadgets:
I can tolerate it because I have a pontoon boat for lazy pleasures with the wife and family. And the fishing boat for those early morning and afternoon outing for solitude. The "big" boat sometimes sits on the lift and we defer to the pontoon! Crazy, isn't it? With the troubles we have had this summer, I suppose we do not have the confidence we had with the other Formula.....yet. But it will come. Next spring, both engines will be new and a few other things will be fixed also. Clean slate!:D
Thanks for the kind words. Have a good fall and winter.:) I will!