I'm with Brian; glad you're back in business. Some of us (me, personally) are better off taking a motor to a motor specialist. Go slime that boat up!!
Utter failure. I suck.
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You can basically see that scene happening in the text from the shop tech, at least I can, that’s why I included it.
The service manager told me “it happens more often than you’d think.”
Hey callback to another thread, I earned some miles to go tarpon fishing!
Yeah, I’m sorta cheap and well I got burned in the ROI of the time/skill/experience/cost/enjoyment equation this time.
For additional context, in high school for a couple years I worked at an antique clock shop spending my time there mostly repairing antique clocks. I can do some mechanical stuff and figure things out. I can also get in over my head. I got a lotta stuff bouncing around my head and demanding my time. Another mistake, which I knew but did it again, is doing a complex unfamiliar job in steps with too long of breaks in between. I did that with this job and that didn’t help.
Fair enough.I'm someone who will 100% always do my own maintenance. Which is why I don't own anything with a carburetor
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Fair enough.
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That job description is great! Thanks for the laugh!
BriGuy
Life of the Party
Don't worry Matt. You get to keep your man card. Like a previous poster said, we've all been there. Carburetors are the spawn of Satan. At least you dove in and tried it.
Case in point, in my younger days, I was helping my brother attempt to rebuild the carburetor on his Dodge Challenger. We re-installed the carb and were able to get it to start and run -- for only a few seconds. So, being the stubborn half-Germans we were, we kept giving it gas and kept trying to get it to run. Not being analytical half-Germans, we didn't consider that the fumes and the amount of fuel we putting through that carb would indicate any sort of problem. That is until we heard a really loud boom. We looked toward the back of the car and saw a rising smoke and vaporized rust cloud. We had managed to ignite the fuel vapors that built up in the exhaust pipes. We looked under the car and saw two piles of rusted metal under the mufflers. We basically blew them apart.
Turns out, we were using a carb rebuild kit that was missing the proper float bowl gasket. It did not seal the power valve which just let fuel freely flow into the engine. Luckily, we didn't burn the car up.
So, any of us that take on enough carb repairs have likely been there. Getting the engine to run again after re-working a carb is sure a sweet sound, though.
Case in point, in my younger days, I was helping my brother attempt to rebuild the carburetor on his Dodge Challenger. We re-installed the carb and were able to get it to start and run -- for only a few seconds. So, being the stubborn half-Germans we were, we kept giving it gas and kept trying to get it to run. Not being analytical half-Germans, we didn't consider that the fumes and the amount of fuel we putting through that carb would indicate any sort of problem. That is until we heard a really loud boom. We looked toward the back of the car and saw a rising smoke and vaporized rust cloud. We had managed to ignite the fuel vapors that built up in the exhaust pipes. We looked under the car and saw two piles of rusted metal under the mufflers. We basically blew them apart.
Turns out, we were using a carb rebuild kit that was missing the proper float bowl gasket. It did not seal the power valve which just let fuel freely flow into the engine. Luckily, we didn't burn the car up.
So, any of us that take on enough carb repairs have likely been there. Getting the engine to run again after re-working a carb is sure a sweet sound, though.
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wanderingrichard
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I’m a Seattle central alumnus (I took quite a few undergrad courses there anyway) and a big fan of the school, but not a big fan of working on motors. I’m just sorta cheap and expedient. I never liked working on cars very much even when one could work on them with a set of wrenches and sockets. But there was a time where I used to have to do a lot of my own repairs and maintenance. Then one day years ago, while trying to get to a loose wire relay plug in my Jeep Cherokee, the hot hot hot upper radiator hose blew up in my face scalding me pretty badly, even up inside my nose. Then I super duper really didn’t feel like working on cars, after that.Course Planning | Maritime Programs
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To an extent anyway.
I’m also a stubborn half-German. So ya never know.
fatbillybob
Steelhead
We all have our crosses to bare. I'm a car nerd. I was doing the cam timing and major service on my V-12 here. This would have caused you a heart attack.
Course Planning | Maritime Programs
Our Marine Engineering program combines classroom theory with hands-on training on real vessels – and an exciting at-sea internship.
Thete are a couple of useful night classes in marine motor repair at Seattle Central.
It would be great to find a night class in outboard repair and maintenance. Having been burned by bad mechanics in the past, I do my own work, but I would really like a deeper understanding of it all.
I agree. Many times I've been in very remote exposed places where a functioning outboard is the difference between returning to camp safely and drifting into open ocean. A satellite phone doesn't guarantee timely rescue when things go sideways fast.
BriGuy
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Nice! What flavor V12 and vehicle? Also, why are there three coolant inlet/thermostat housings, with one of them in the intake manifold valley?
At least there's no friggin' carb...
fatbillybob
Steelhead
Ferrari 550 Maranello like this... Since the beginning Ferrari thinks of each bank of cylinders as almost a separate motor tied to a common crankshaft so there is almost always right left redundancy....two ECUs,, two fuel pumps, left right temp sensors, left right crank sensors. In that picture in the rear you can see that splits off to top of heads left and right. The passenger one in front is for the passenger bank, the driver one in the front for driver's side but has the single T-stat. Why no second T-stat? Well, like I said "almost always" and It's Italian!Nice! What flavor V12 and vehicle? Also, why are there three coolant inlet/thermostat housings, with one of them in the intake manifold valley?
At least there's no friggin' carb...
fatbillybob
Steelhead
Italians are an amazing people. There is flare, life and energy in everything they do.