fishinwrench

You're kidding, right? 🤔

Yeah! Buncha hotspotting blabbermouths. 😎

I bet there have been 20+ phones on the rear bumpers of trucks over the years when guys drop boats off here. They get out to unhook the boat and say...."Holy Crap, THERE'S my Phone!". Obviously set it there when they hooked up to it. If you ever watch a truck or SUV travel on a dusty gravel road you'll see that there's a vortex that tends to keep things from getting blown off a rear bumper. Had an opened fly box stay glued to a rear bumper for 140 miles once. Never even lost a single wooly-bugger.

2-stroke = NGK B8HS-10 4-stroke = NGK LFR5A-11

Year/Make/HP I'll look it up.

Yamaha's enrichener system (choke) has issues that cause hard cold starting. I can fix that for ya. 😊

Got pulled over and had to take a sobriety test because my buddy left a half of a beer sitting on the back bumper. I hadn't even had a sip of alcohol, but the cop claimed "he could smell it on me". The cops nose mistook a cinnamon Jolly Rancher for a Busch light. 🙄

If you're looking specifically for Hybrids, and your traveling to get here, then you'll likely have more success bypassing Lake O and heading straight for the lower end of Truman where they are more heavily stocked. Hybrids, when you find them on Lake O, are basically loners, but on Truman you are far more likely to get into a whole school of them.

Going vertical just doesn't favor 4-stroke design. Your uppermost cylinders are always going to be hotter.... because heat rises. An outboard relys on lake water for cooling. With 2-stroke motors tolerances have more leeway, and tolerances change with engine temperature. 4-stroke outboards are loaded with nylon and other blends of plastic that are internal components of the engine, to save weight. Other than the oil pump drive gear on V6 Mercury's....there isn't any plastic inside the powerhead of a 2-stroke outboard. If overall weight wasn't a major factor then 4-stroke outboards could possibly be very reliable. But for now I just see them as being a very expensive THROW AWAY outboard. And in this world of recyclable things I just see it as a huge waste of otherwise good materials. Nobody gives twoshits about clean burning engines when they are 60 miles off the coast and a storm is approaching.

I mis-spoke/posted on the sonar units, They are Lowrance Elite 7's. My bad.

It blows my mind too. The fact that any highly schooled engineer even considered a multi-cylinder, vertical crankshaft, 4-stroke engine ....and then designed it light enough in weight to be mounted on the transom of a boat..... And then a whole gaggle of other highly trained engineers actually went along with, and supported the idea????? I mean WTF? Helicopter science, that's what it is. It's as if nobody paused to consider how short the average life of a helicopter motor is. And why. 😵

Factory tuning for the lowest possible emissions is the killer for 2-stroke engines. The more "efficient" the engine consumes fuel and oil....the shorter its expected life will be. There's just no getting around that. So for the majority of blown 2-stroke outboards you can thank our lovely Environmental Protection Agency. Throttle response, lighter weight, HP per cubic inch, fewer moving parts, and generally a much longer life are the benefits to 2-stroke induction. Show me a 17 year old 150-200hp 4-stroke outboard. Ain't none out there. And there won't ever be any either.

Yep, it's money green/gold/white.

Not a stupid question. Shift your car/truck into 1st gear, mash the throttle and hold it at 6000 RPM for awhile. You'll be calling for a tow truck shortly. 😄

I haven't torn it down and inspected it.....and don't plan to. But judging by the way the piston melted down, the white-hot deposits on ALL of the spark plugs, and the fact that the fuel in the vapor separator tested over 18% alcohol content, my guess (for now) is typical detonation from low quality fuel.. This happens when a glowing hot spot inside the combustion chamber begins to ignite the fuel mixture as the piston is still moving up the cylinder on the compression stroke. Also known as "pre-ignition" or "dieseling". Sometimes, as in this case, it blows the edge of the piston off so that the excess pressure escapes out the exhaust port. In other (worse case) scenarios it blows a hole completely out the side of the block. This motor actually has detonation sensors that are designed to retard ignition timing if pre-ignition is detected.....but when you have a glowing hot spot inside the combustion chamber it doesn't need a spark from the spark plugs to ignite the fuel mixture....so detonation sensors can't save it. Bottom line......Poor quality fuel, and a driver that wants to haulass. 😏

What was the benefit of getting married ?

Everything is for sale. Make me an offer 😅

Got it, thanks. So 30th thru the 1st.

Cool beans. I tossed the idea around of buying it myself and making ANOTHER winter project out of it.....but I'm on the verge of overextending myself with winter projects. Plus I don't know much about ProCraft boats. Seems solid and apparently it's fast and pretty safe because he was cooking along at 66 mph on Bull Shoals when it melted down, and he had his wife with him. 😎

It can be rebuilt for 3800.00 + the cost of a cylinder head (NLA from Mercury....but they are out there used and good as new). A replacement powerhead is 4712.00 + 1260.00 to swap it out.....unless you wanna do it yourself. Those are MY prices. Feel free to shop around, my feelings won't be hurt. SN is: OT632048 2003 200 EFI

Is this the first weekend of Nov.? I forgot to mark it down.

I love stick-tights. They keep your bootlaces from coming untied.

One gar catch per year is about all I'm good for. I see them, and it always seems like a good idea.....but halfway through the fight I just want to get rid of it. 🙄

So presently it sounds like a Dr. Phil situation. Let us know if it escalates to a Jerry Springer level. 😊