Hello all,
I have an 89 Bayliner with the iron duke 3.0L and cobra outdrive. It gave me faithful service dragging kids around and fishing since 1990. I decided to take it to FL and use it for lake fishing instead of selling it as I have an Sea Pro that Iuse for salt water. I hadn't run it on water for the last 2.5 years (just starting on muffs). Dropped it in to do a little fishing after replacing some hurricane damaged roofs before I had to leave FL. Engine seemed fine until I pulled away from the dock and the boat seemed as though it had no power. At full throttle it took forever to get onto plane. Once there it ran fine, albeit at full throttle and not making much speed. We were going fishing so we shut it down, starting it up to move away from the bank, get out of weeds etc, so maybe 3-4 re-starts. Began turning over slowly so suspecting a battery issue as well we started for the dock. The boat had even less power but was not m.nissing and my temp guage was at 175, While crawling towards shore, it missed twice then there was an expensive sounding noise and the engine died. Starter couldn't move it. We got a tow and let it sit for an hour thinking it had overheated although the guage readings were normal. I had to catch a plane shortly so all I really had time for was to stow the boat and leave it. Prop spins in neutral but it IS making some noises, no resistance when turning it by hand though.
I read everything I could find on this and other forums and it seems that perhaps the outdrive could have seized and not the engine? The only outdrive issue I had in 27 years was replacing the clutch dog about 17 years ago.. And not sure why the prop would spin if the upper and/or lower drives were locked up. Un fortunately, I can't get down to look at it again until late Dec and I have a chance to buy a donor boat with a 2.3L/OMC outdrive that will fit it cheaply. Can anyone with some experience speculate on this? I suppose I can buy the boat and if wrong about the outdrive, part it out and get my $$$ back but that seems like a lot of trouble. But if I need it I don't want to let it get away as I have been searching for one (outdrive) for a month and they are VERY exepnsive considering how crappy they are thought to be. And I don't want to go the SEI route as that is cost prohibitive for a boat that is only worth $2.5-$3K when working right. If I am going to spend $2K and my labor to patch this one up it seemd like I should put those $$$ into my 21CC and write this one off to Boat Angels.
Thoughts/advice? I don't have anyone in the area to drop the lower or upper unit on right now.
Thanks to anyone who can respond,
Darwin
I have an 89 Bayliner with the iron duke 3.0L and cobra outdrive. It gave me faithful service dragging kids around and fishing since 1990. I decided to take it to FL and use it for lake fishing instead of selling it as I have an Sea Pro that Iuse for salt water. I hadn't run it on water for the last 2.5 years (just starting on muffs). Dropped it in to do a little fishing after replacing some hurricane damaged roofs before I had to leave FL. Engine seemed fine until I pulled away from the dock and the boat seemed as though it had no power. At full throttle it took forever to get onto plane. Once there it ran fine, albeit at full throttle and not making much speed. We were going fishing so we shut it down, starting it up to move away from the bank, get out of weeds etc, so maybe 3-4 re-starts. Began turning over slowly so suspecting a battery issue as well we started for the dock. The boat had even less power but was not m.nissing and my temp guage was at 175, While crawling towards shore, it missed twice then there was an expensive sounding noise and the engine died. Starter couldn't move it. We got a tow and let it sit for an hour thinking it had overheated although the guage readings were normal. I had to catch a plane shortly so all I really had time for was to stow the boat and leave it. Prop spins in neutral but it IS making some noises, no resistance when turning it by hand though.
I read everything I could find on this and other forums and it seems that perhaps the outdrive could have seized and not the engine? The only outdrive issue I had in 27 years was replacing the clutch dog about 17 years ago.. And not sure why the prop would spin if the upper and/or lower drives were locked up. Un fortunately, I can't get down to look at it again until late Dec and I have a chance to buy a donor boat with a 2.3L/OMC outdrive that will fit it cheaply. Can anyone with some experience speculate on this? I suppose I can buy the boat and if wrong about the outdrive, part it out and get my $$$ back but that seems like a lot of trouble. But if I need it I don't want to let it get away as I have been searching for one (outdrive) for a month and they are VERY exepnsive considering how crappy they are thought to be. And I don't want to go the SEI route as that is cost prohibitive for a boat that is only worth $2.5-$3K when working right. If I am going to spend $2K and my labor to patch this one up it seemd like I should put those $$$ into my 21CC and write this one off to Boat Angels.
Thoughts/advice? I don't have anyone in the area to drop the lower or upper unit on right now.
Thanks to anyone who can respond,
Darwin
