I was towing my bowrider home after purchase (used) and about halfway home, on a stretch of 2-lane blacktop, I watched in my rearview as the tan platform took flight. I didn't know the seller didn't secure it.
Couldn't even get home with it before damaging the boat. 🤦🏻♂️
Before I moved I stupidly sold 4 full 5Gal cans of expensive Dowfrost PG that I once intended to use to change my cottage boiler fluid. I sold the place before getting around to that task so I short-sightedly thought the PG was no longer needed.
Oops.
Now my Mercruiser and jetskis have cheap...
My yard is littered with summer lake toys.
Sections of the 80' dock sit on the lawn, next to the double jetski lift. So sad.
I bought a snowmobile just for something to do in the winter.
I hate winter. I hate snow.
Now I find myself hypocritically wishing for snow.
Development continues--but without all the needed $$$ in subsidies and incentives that have been shoveled into the development of battery-power, it's a much slower process.
Hydrogen IS the way forward. It has the energy density needed to push a heavy vehicle hundreds of miles, fast refills, can...
I had a conversation 1 week ago with the manager of a local Husqvarna power equipment sales/service outlet. She had the same complaint about waiting over a year for service parts. So this is more universal & less political than tariffs & pushing new car sales.
Her claim was it's still due to...
It was windy.
My wife is little or no help.
I don't have loading guides on the trailer.
Frankly I just wanted to get the hell out of there and get home to the important business of winterizing a sterndrive (for the 1st time).
I thought I could pull it that last bit with the winch. No.
Tap of...
I got it sorted.
My service manual shows an O-ring under the Tstat. When i looked closer at the nasty flat thing that I took out I saw it was cork. My kit came with both so I put in the new cork ring and the spacer was the 'correct' height--just a few thousandths higher than the gasket so the...
2000 4.3L Mercruiser.
I'm replacing the thermostat.
After scraping & cleaning the surfaces I installed a new O-ring, Tstat, oem plastic spacer, gasket (with metal rivets). I carefully centered the Tstat but when all stacked up the white plastic spacer sits proud of the gasket at least 1/16“...
Just a quick update...
My Quicksilver temp sensor measures 800 ohms at 70*F. same as the one on the boat so I guess the sensor is fine after all.
Which now puts the thermostat at the head of the 'suspicion' line.
This is my last weekend on the water. I'll put in a new Tstat during...
