The Final Chapter!!

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Yea I understand the frustration, MJ do the compression, because if it is good all around it can be fixed for little exspense and I'm holding out hope that it checks out good for you. I've had those junk cars your talking about, they can nickle and dime you but if the motor is tight and the lower unit is good then the rest your capable of doing better than a lot of guys here. Give it a shot at this point you got no other alternative so make lemonade ;)
 
Well that may very well be true. But, the situation at hand is MJ used all of the fund raiser monies as well as some of his own up to this point and cannot afford to drop any more into it at this time. Granted it doesn't cost anything to tear things apart to investigate. He just cannot afford to fix whatever the problem may be. And the season is rushing by very quickly. At this point, if he decides to keep at it, he'll probably end up covering everything up until next year.
Trust me, when that motor started shutting down and overheating, it sounded really wrong.
 
MJ, that BLOWS A BIG ONE :'( :'( :'( ...feelin' bad for ya, Big Guy ...I know Blue Runner's gonna be bummed to see this :-/ :-/ ...

Try the stuff Skools is talkin' about...just MAYBE ::) ...
 
I just emailed the whole saler that bought the 175.

I just don't have it in me to screw some one with not telling them the truth of all the issues.

They will give me crap if I tell them and if I don't some poor guy will think he is set and have to go into hock trying to fix it.

Waiting for the whole saler to email me if he wants it??
 
MJ - that sux . . . before you sell the motor test the compression. It might be as simple as a fuel restriction (carbs) or a corroded t-stat. Hopefully the motor didn't have a piston melt party!!
 
I don't believe it's fuel Tim. The heads were red hot. I was sitting out on the bracket making adjustments while we were running with the cover off. I touched the heads and burnt my hand. There was a good stream from the tell tale. I would think if there was a corroded t-stat, they wouldn't have opened to allow water through. We'll probably investigate a little further if MJ wants to. I think he's a bit reluctant right now.
The wholesaler will probably give him something in the neighborhood of $1000. Still a $200 loss from what he paid B_R, then some of his own out of pocket expenses. ???
 
I know he's pretty deflated right now, but a grand will help some (he'd rather have the motor runnin')...at least he'll have that to start a new search for new power... ;) ...
 
Got a hold of the Whole Saler today, he said he is very interested and to send pic's and a price.

I did both, let see were it goes from here??

Man if it wasn't for bad luck I would have none at all!! :'(
 
That blows.  

MJ - Can you forward me that guys information.

I have a spare Merc side mount control box and a tach . . . if you go that route.
if you search craigslist . . . try www.crazedlist.org . . . it's a better way to search.

MJ - You could always go back to the I/O . . . and get busted ass boat with a decent motor and outdrive for $1k. There are litterally hundreds of those deals out here. I can keep my eyes peeled for some bargains . . .

There was a sweet Left hand 2001 Yamaha 250 that sold for $2700 right near me. No one seems to want those big outboards anymore.
 
In the process of picking MJ's mechanics brain a bit more based on his initial evaluation of the motor, He believes that the wrong plugs and gap were in that motor for a reason. He thinks that the motor had an overheating problem unrelated to the t-stats and somewhere along the line, that was someones simple fix. Run a cooler plug with less gap to keep the combustion point to a minimum.
 
Heck guys...w/ the deals and financin' they're offerin' these days, MJ could find a ''hold-over'' from last year and hardly notice the payments, specially w/ what he'll get for the old motor as a down-payment...I'm not wild about payments either, but it sure put some relaibility into takin' the boat out...
 
As CB said this motor has been joy riged for sometime, with wire inplace of C clips, oil injection linkage missing wrong plugs, gap on plugs not set right, over heating, ect ect ect...

Hoping to hear from the whole saler today??

But that may have to wait also as I had to take my wife to the Hosiptal yesterday afternoon and they had to do a Emergency Bi-Pass operation on her!

They say it went well she was on the table 6 hours, Doc called said all seemed well and she in ICU.

She will have to remain in the hos. 10 days or so? And then we start the process of trying to teach her to walk again :-/

It took a good 3 months the last time and 6 months for her to get ok at it, this time the leg was much much worse and may take longer??

Some were along the line I pissed some budy off?? Cause I have had ZERO luck and it gets nothing but worse every day!!
 
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