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Why not be proactive and do a drill test in the transom around the suspect thru bolts and see what you find. It’s easy and harmless. Any number of people here can walk you through it.
Right here at home the woodland birds are here in full force. Actually seeing an up tick with certain birds. Pilated woodpeckers are everywhere. Very healthy population of broadwing and red tail hawks. Quite a few nesting pairs of Bald Eagles around compared to years past. Tons of barred owls. I...
Any current parts laying around with a layer of dust that you use, you can take the value of that and consider it a “credit” That will free up more $ .
It’s near impossible for us online to tell you if that boat is safe to use. No crystal ball. If your confident in your survey and no other source of leak is detected you do the drill test( which is a must in this case) and all comes out fine then you have to decide if your good to go.
Interesting. I have two lifepo4 batteries wired in series 12 volt 100 amp hour. I didn’t check the exact voltage before I put the boat in storage what I do know is they were only about half charged. We had a brutally cold winter here. When I got the boat out this spring the batteries were fine...
Interesting reply. Please post up your experience with failure and what motor/ motors it was. Or any first hand knowledge you have on failing motors. Could be very helpful in my search.
I’ve got all that stuff with my Garmin Force on my Crestliner. I expected to pay a good amount for that. But never expected that a basic semi affordable heavy duty bow mount T motor was nonexistent.
As far as a nap😁. With my networked Garmin I can sit at the console punch in a way point on...
Smoked my 80 pound terrova on my electric motor only lake boat yesterday. Burned up everything, armature, most of the wires. Motor owed me nothing. It was At least 15 years old and was used hard every time out.
Cant even buy a basic motor & foot pedal 80 pound replacement now days. They all have...
Brian you win. Turns out the caliper was no good. That’s two brand new ( remanufactured) calipers from Auto Zone. Technically you could say three because I had the shop replace both sides with OEM while they were at it. That’ll teach me to buy cheap parts. Always a crap shoot. Never again.
In the ten years leading up to my retirement I saw a steady decline in work ethic in the workplace. Some had to do with policies put in place at my place of employment. Won’t say more at risk of conversation becoming political.
How true. My current truck has the 6 liter. A motor with a good reputation and doesn’t have the active fuel management that was supposed to be the great thing on the 5.3.
I don’t know much about the 6.6 that comes on the new 2500 series trucks.
For sure, like I said the calipers and clips are brand new.
The best price I could find for a truck that checks enough boxes for me is just shy of 52.000 and it’s 5 hours away. But considering a better equipped model runs up to 80.000.
I hear ya about the bearings, I checked for play and didn’t seem to be any. It’s in the shop now $$$.
Wife said to me last night “ Truck is ten years old you should get a new one” Very tempting, but I really like my truck. Only 81000 on the clock.
My initial thought, that’s why I took the brand new caliper back and exchanged it for another new one. But yeah wouldn’t surprise me if they both are bad.
Truck goes into shop tomorrow. Not having it is putting a damper on my boating/ fishing.
