FujiFrontier
Recruit
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- Jan 1, 2006
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First off, I know how annoying n00b questions that are easily answered by doing topic searches are, so I did a few.<br /><br />My uncle had a boat (make/model unknown) with a Yamaha DT40 engine (1987, if I read the serial # 04003*717357 correctly), he bought it from an obscure family member back in 1995. He used it once or twice and never used it again. I'm 99,9% sure he did no storage preparations before parking it. It's been sitting on its trailer since at least 1997 parked in my great-grandma's backyard. It's been there so long that the cover has eroded through and blew away sometime ago, it's been exposed to the elements since then. I don't know the maintenance history of it, but from reading and doing a few searches I assume it will need:<br /><br />new impeller<br />oil change<br />spark plugs/tuneup<br />perhaps seals on water pump??<br /><br />I tried pulling gently on the emergency pull cord, the one like a lawnmower has, to see if the engine was seized. It pulled with some resistance. Not as easy as a lawnmower but still "pullable." I have no idea if there was still fuel in the tank(s) when it was put away. The hood/engine cover is really nasty, coated with tree sap and other "black stuff." <br /><br />The engine looks decently clean underneath, some oil sheen on the bottom. I see mentions of "muffs" in order to start/run the engine while the boat is parked, and the "pee hole" where water should come out. I know absolutely nothing about boats or their engines; I'm still trying to grasp the concept of "port" and "starboard." 
I would greatly appreciate if you could show me a photo where these are located. I assume I would be able to get a set of these "muffs" at a marine store, so that we can try to start the engine?<br /><br />A maintenance manual is probably a good start, huh. I'm mildly mechanically inclined, so taking the plugs out and giving it a shot of WD40 wouldn't be too hard... but replacing the impeller sounds hard, just by looking at the engine. Also, does it take straight gas or gas with oil mixed in like the weed-wacker engine? <br /><br />Mainly, we just want to get it started and "running," we don't have time or the money to keep up a boating hobby, so we can get rid of it. Thanks for your help in advance...<br /><br />Oh, another thing. I tried spinning the propellor and it turned sort of freely. is it supposed to do this? I've seen mentions of automatic transmissions and the like, but I don't know what this boat has. (Is all dirty with leaves and stuff and don't want to climb up into it )
I would greatly appreciate if you could show me a photo where these are located. I assume I would be able to get a set of these "muffs" at a marine store, so that we can try to start the engine?<br /><br />A maintenance manual is probably a good start, huh. I'm mildly mechanically inclined, so taking the plugs out and giving it a shot of WD40 wouldn't be too hard... but replacing the impeller sounds hard, just by looking at the engine. Also, does it take straight gas or gas with oil mixed in like the weed-wacker engine? <br /><br />Mainly, we just want to get it started and "running," we don't have time or the money to keep up a boating hobby, so we can get rid of it. Thanks for your help in advance...<br /><br />Oh, another thing. I tried spinning the propellor and it turned sort of freely. is it supposed to do this? I've seen mentions of automatic transmissions and the like, but I don't know what this boat has. (Is all dirty with leaves and stuff and don't want to climb up into it )