Hey Blueberry where is it :bump2:dont make me come a knocking for it:love-struck:
LOL wish I had some good news for you guys, but it turned out to be a disaster :facepalm:
I took the boat out on the sunday and although at first the engine wasnt running too good but then it kicked right into life all of a sudden and I was getting up on plane and hitting about 28mph
compare this to the 8mph i used to get :facepalm: Every now and again though it would start acting up and almost dying on me when I advance the throttle but then all of a sudden as if another cylinder started firing it would take off. I have a feeling this is due to me having to use the old powerpack as the problems is almost definatly electrical.
According to my tach (which is just a cheap digital one from ebay) I was only getting 2400rpm at wot at 28mph, Although the tach might not be really accurate Im sure I am still missing 1-2 k rpm. Hopefully the new powerpack sorts this out.
However the next day I decided to go out for a couple of hours for another test run as the day before went pretty well.
I was just at the slip about to launch the boat and when I jumped out the boat my phone jumped out my pocket and fell to its death :grumpy: I use my phone for gps and I had all my routes save on this phone too. Not to mention the videos from the day before were also lost im afraid.
Soooo I went out anyway and I used my partners phone for gps along with my navigation guide, but this phones gps was not accurate enough (out by 20 - 30 metres) so long story short I ended up in waters I wasn't experienced with and all of a sudden - right in the middle of the loch - I must have hit a massive rock and my gearcase took the hit and smashed, it threw my outboard right up too and damaged the tilt swivel bracket as well :blue: I managed to get home with my little auxillary 2hp outboard.
All in all a really expensive and unlucky day. My outboard is now in bits waiting for parts, a gearcase and swivel/tilt bracket. I was gutted at the time but I suppose it could have been alot worse, so I am now off the water for a few weeks till i repair all of this :mad-new: