fishinwrench

www.marineengine.com has offered to sponsor a Sims Marine YouTube channel should I decide to start one. It would pay an additional 280.00 - 560.00 per month. But I would need 2 more cameras and someone to do all the editing..... because I don't have the patience for that kinda stuff.

What kind of "procedure" are we recovering from this time ?

Have they solved CWD? I don't hear anybody mentioning it anymore. Now they want everyone to collect ticks, put them in envelopes, and send them in for research. All these years and nobody has studied TICKS before? GTFOH ! Always bailing on one STUDY, and starting something else. 🙄 This is the kinda crap that drives me nuts about MDC biologists agenda's. Always starting something, but never finishing or concluding anything. So irritating ! Just ONCE I'd like to see them start something.....and stay with it until they come to a bonafide conclusion. MDC Biologists:. The biggest CIRCLE JERK SOCIETY ever known to man. 🙄

That's what I keep telling Sugarbritches and the girls about their fingernail toxins. Sure it looks pretty....but breathing that crap on a regular basis can not be good for ya. Who cares what your nails look like when you're in a looney ward slobbering all over yourself and sitting in a puddle of piss?

Nah,. You sit your sculling paddle across your lap, and pause occasionally to right your drift. Or set yourself up between casts. Easily doable when slinging spinnerbaits, crankbaits, ect. But a real PIA when trying to tickle a jig/worm slowly along the bottom.

If any of my friends or family wanted me along just so they'd have someone to carry their @$$ out when they flop....... I'd tell them to KMA ! 😂

Got a voltmeter on the console ? Your engine charging system may be kaput. Happens all the time.

The majority of outboard sales, believe it or not, is in a saltwater environment where no matter how well they design and build them they simply are not going to last very long. So the incentive to build long lasting ultra-reliable outboards just isn't there. Johnson/Evinrude did it.... but they aren't producing outboards anymore. The remaining outboard manufacturers know that the motor will succumb to saltwater corrosion within 10 years regardless. So designing the powerheads, gearcases, ect. to last forever, and providing parts for motors older than 7-10 years old is pointless from their standpoint. I get that, but it sucks for us freshwater users.

They certainly don't have to be, and they hopefully won't be forever. But up to date they continue to be disposable outboards, which really wouldn't be such a bad thing if they weren't so gawd aweful expensive to buy new. From my perspective as a repair center owner, I'm not going to charge someone for trying....but failing to succeed.... So attempting to fix a 4-stroke with a running problem is always a gamble for me, which in 80% of cases means a huge waste of my time. And lost time is money lost. It's just frustrating because I could have been making money, out fishing, or enjoying myself otherwise.

If you are not running Livescope, 360, or any other voltage hogging toys.....then you should be fine with just a reasonably fresh 950+ group 24-27 cranking battery.

Yeah the leaking down issue is yet another Mercury exclusive. They coulda/shoulda rectified that 25-30 years ago. But once again have elected to just let it slide. 🙄 You'll never see an Evinrude, Yamaha, Nissan/Tohatsu, or even a Honda trim system leaking down. But 95% of Mercs do it, and there really isn't a reasonable fix other than replacing the entire trim pump assembly with another that will also eventually do it too.

There would have never been a need to develop DDT had people stayed on their own respective sides of the pond. All of the back & forth trying to force other countries to COMPLY with our wishes, and $#!t like that, is what spread diseases all over the world to people whose bodies weren't adapted to cope with it. People caused the problems, and then the people's SCIENTISTS often made it worse by trying to come up with ways to rectify it. NATURE tried to tell everyone to stay in their own yard, and to stop all of that international screwing.....but people were too horney and AMBITIOUS to listen. There ya go. 😎

Well that one won't be voting in the next election, I can promise you that. 😂 That one won't outlast it's original set of spark plugs. 🙄

What make/year/and HP are they ? There's bound to be a few good ones among them. I just haven't noticed any pattern yet. I have a tech buddy in Australia that swears that the carbureted Yamaha 60 4-stroke is going to be one to make me eat my words. It has no plastic in the powerhead, rattles like a diesel, but he thinks they'll live long and not suffer the typical loss of low-end grunt.

I can't fault BRP for pulling the plug. They continued with quality and weren't going to sacrifice that in order to just give away truckloads of engines every year like Mercury Marine does. As a boat dealer it paid them more to rig Mercury's on them because they could get them cheaper. The fact that BRP refuses to sell the line and transfer the patents tells me that SOMEDAY they may be back in the game. I hope I live to see it.

The old 12/24 motors still had only 2 wires down to the armature. They switched the voltage over just ahead of the rheostat. So I guess possibly you could convert a 36 to a 24 by getting a 24v rheostat (speed switch). Not sure though. I've never tried it.

Yep

Looks like it was 5 And this looks quite a bit shy of 26# Looks more like 19 to me. Still a fine sack. 👍

Well I've never gotten to tear one down to personally inspect because the cost to do that is almost as much as a replacement powerhead. But my guess is that internal plastic components (used so that the motor will run QUIETLY)....have a short lifespan and are immediately compromised if the engine gets a bit warm. Once that happens you loose efficiency and the emission control module starts adjusting things to keep the engine running CLEAN..... Because you know THAT is the most important thing. Nevermind the fact that you might need to outrun a tornado or get out from in front of a barge or something like that. If it can't be done with minimal emissions then bygod it's just time for you to die. That's the demand that manufacturers are now forced to comply with. Because EVERYONE was convinced and agreed that was what they wanted. I didn't agree.....but apparently all of the rest of you did. 🙄 (If the boating community had refused to buy them....then we wouldn't be where we are).

Fishing from a boat is great as long as I can stand up in it. I absolutely hate trying to fish sitting down. On a river/creek I only use the canoe to hop over holes that are too deep to wade through.

Well they've got a gaggle of wannabe Pro's wearing their jerseys. That's easy to accomplish though, toss anybody a jersey, a hat, and a bag of plastic crawdads......and they'll sing your song everytime a microphone gets in front of them. And of course Boat Wraps are a REAL ego booster. Wrap a guys boat and he'll say nice things about you even if you're banging his wife.

Typically it isn't. Crusty/Dusty old buildings with boring storefronts can turn into hugely successful empires over time. But jumping right past those periods of evolution, right into the big-time....... Risky!

Depends on how you do it. It's certainly possible to fail. Think of several ways that you think could cause a marine business to fail.....and I'll bet ya that the business in question is doing it. Likely all of them. I guess you feel that failing....but looking good while doing it.... isn't really "failing". Lenders disagree.

Boat Wrx sure is spending alot of money building themselves up. I wish them the best....but if they can make it 3 years before filing bankruptcy and going tits up I'll be amazed.