Re: Off Topic Slightly (Daselbee?)
I hibernate in the winter gents , I logged tonight to see what was new and to report back on some stuff. I'm in the middle of finishing off my kg7h build. I'm waiting to hear back from Ron Thomas about the lower unit I shipped to him in the fall. I also picked up a B hydro I plan on running it on.
Story about the motor- came up on craigslist last year, got a lead from john's old merc site. Turns out this guy was helping a buddy clear out the shed, so his buddy gave him a couple motors for helping him. Next day he posts the motor up on CL for $100. I was the first to call and we firmed up on the price. Next day he phones me back and tells me he's gotten 40 calls since me and the price is now $300. I didn't care, I paid the price and had it shipped her from florida. It had blown pistons which i've since and the wrong tank band ID plate which is now a proper kg7h nameplate, that wasn't cheap to find. Here's the motor when I got it.
Other than that had a really busy summer that didn't involve boating. We sold our house in CP and moved to a single family home on the other side of the mississippi, we are still in carleton place and loving it. The boat is now in it's own portable garage behind our house. I plan on showing up more in the coming weeks, the winter really screws things up, you know, ice fishing and snowmobiling.
Thanks for thinking about me!!!!
I kind of got out of the hobby a bit near the end of the summer. My last few posts were trying to solve a full throttle issue on an 85hp merc. The guy I was fixing it for was a former "customer" if you will of mine. Well I ended up spending $250 of my own money on a stater to fix his boat, the guy ended up high tailing it when I told him to take the boat to my buddy's shop for him to have a look at it. I was supposed to go back and swap stators, well that never happened and I lost $250 on the job so I vowed never again to fix a strangers motor. The stator didn't fix the issue so instead of having it fixed by Aim here in Ottawa the guy posted the motor as a "working motor" on kijiji the next week and probably sold it to some kid for $800, the guy was a real crook.
