fishinwrench

Here's an update on THIS thing that most have probably forgotten about. http://m.kcci.com/news/family-attorney-sheds-light-on-ellingson-drowning/27724964#!bKrnHo

The LN fishing was better than I expected. It's in sick looking shape though, lots of thick green algae in all the slow water spots. It needs a flush badly but the fish don't seem to mind one bit, they are fat and scrappy.

What good is a jailhouse if it isn't full, right ?

September (dove season) is the only time of the year that the (dove colored) DD-22's come out of my box, and I sure wouldn't wanna go out without them then.

They are as good as anything else in their price range IMO. I used to sell them and "honest failure" returns were very rare. It is what I run in all three of my own powerboats and I haven't had a battery failure in over 12 years that wasn't justified.

Will witnessing a pair of bare boobs or hearing the same words heard in most songs today really destroy a child, or is that just a theory that society has chosen to hold close to their heart ? What exactly is it that these Bull floaters are gonna do that could cause harm to "families" ? Do those folks that participate have to disassociate from their family's afterwards ? It all sounds so terribly awful, I just can't imagine....

NP, let us know if the pump swap cures it. I'd still do the low vs high speed test just for good measure.

The 30# troller might be a bit weak for the job, but regardless of whether the 9.9 is elect.start or not you'll just need a single group 27 deep cycle batt. and to beef up the leads to the TM (6ga. with a 30 amp fuse or breaker). A simple 10amp portable charger will do fine. About 150.00 all together if you shop around for the best deal on a quality battery. If you have a Menard's nearby they have Exide NG-27's at about the best price I've heard of.

My mom was a med.-tech in a hospital for the criminally insane, and one of the things a lot of those "people" had in common was doing creative things with their poop. They should probably dig a little deeper into the life of Mr. Pillow, they might solve a few cold cases. Just saying'.

Initially I thought yours had the tried and true 4-screw vacuum pump, but without a serial # I wasn't able to verify that. I did a quick check and I'm not finding a rebuild kit available for your style pump. It may only be sold as an assembly. 803529 T 04 (104.58) Pump assy. 16131-3 (3.00) O-ring

Yes! Good deal !

That's a lot of easy money right there !

I think that's where you float thru a section of farm land and the first one to the takeout with a stolen cow in their canoe wins ? If so there will be some quality YT fodder on Aug.29th

It's like Superman with no phone booth to jump into. Helpless and worthless !

Well you just Rock at multitasking. If you were to call me with a "tech question" when I'm out fishing, or on my way fishing....there's a good chance I won't even be able to tell you what color Mercury outboards are. My worst fear is having my outboard fail to start when I'm out fishing and not knowing how to fix it. Only SLIGHTLY exaggerating.

You think your 4-strokes are quiet now, just wait a bit and they'll get even quieter! Sorry, I can't NOT throw in a derogatory remark about 4S outboards in general here. It just wouldn't be ME if I didn't.

It would "pass it" sure enough.....pass it right to gnd. No ? It's only 7-9v. Any short to gnd would knock that down to about .02 at the injector I'd think. I dunno. THAT kinda knowledge doesn't help me one bit so I draw a line as to what gets into my brain and STAYS, and what to boot out in order to have more room for figuring out how to make fish bite.

It would smoke like a steam engine, foul the plugs immediately on a cold start, generate tons of carbon in the exhaust tuner, throw the fuel pressure regulator and high pressure pump into a real hissy fit, and would fail to help lubricate the crank bearings and valve assembly.

There's really no "dead stop" in a EFI system, fuel circulates through the system via a fuel rail with all unused fuel being directed back to a vapor separator where the high pressure pump and pressure regulator is housed. The only direct path fuel has to the crankcase in a EFI is through a ruptured pickup pump diaphragm which is fairly common. Or a stuck open injector which would be something that in all of my "projects" through the years I've never seen happen, and if it did the engine would run REALLY BAD if at all (especially a 2-3 cylinder one). I once heard another tech throw forth the theory that a bad capacitor in the ECM was holding an injector open.....but that makes zero sense as a shorted capacitor (unable to hold voltage) would supply NO trigger voltage to an injector upon demand, leaving it CLOSED at all times... not open. But supposedly he was able to rotate the injector leads and "move the problem" to an opposite injector during a static test. Real head scratcher there ! Nevertheless he swapped the ECM (a pricey gamble) and claims that that "cured it".

Seems like fair warning to Me. A disclaimer of sorts in the land of the free / home of the easily offended.

Interesting. I just always wondered how the Pomme river fared. I hear so little about it that I often forget that it even exists.

Ok. Next step is to change the oil/filter only filling to the 1/2 area on the dipstick, go for a nice long slow cruise (idle to 1/2 throttle with no 3/4 to full throttle operation), allow engine to cool, then take note of the oil level. THEN.... Go for a nice long balls-to-the-wall (wide open) cruise, allow to cool and check again. If the level rises at an idle....then falls back to where it was during high speed/heavy load use then the factory techs claim that either the piston rings have not seated yet, or the engine was not broken-in correctly. If the oil level continues to rise regardless of how it is run then it's time to sell it and buy a 2-stroke...because you won't be willing to pay what it will take to fix it.... Or just continue to run it and change oil about as often as you trim your fingernails, or at least before it blows out the dipstick tube. Don't just drain it down because the oil is being thinned/diluted. (So much for "clean/green running engines", right?) Some techs are blaming the use of synthetic oil, but I'm not even gonna weigh-in on that one. Bottom line; There is no reasonable ($$$$) repair that can be made. All of the above is assuming that it IS FUEL and not water. If there's water in the oil then we need to troubleshoot differently.

I fished a LO trib yesterday that is flowing a whopping .65cfs and did a lot better than I could have done out on the lake I bet. How's the smallmouth population on the Pomme river ?

Well, how was the bite on Pole Timber Pond ? The LN is still a slimey ditch.

Ya can if ya want I was just making the suggestion that a better bite than the lake is likely to produce now could probably be found up the Pomme river where the water is moving. Rivers typically fish a lot better during the dog-"daze" of summer than lakes do. I'd love to hear a few good reports come from that watershed, it seems that nobody fishes it ?????