girlsplus1
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2014
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So I just picked up the boat of my dreams. It's a 1995 Glascon (not Glastron) 18 foot bowrider with a 4.3 Yamaha sterndrive, built right here in Lethbridge, Alberta. Got it for less than half of what it's worth. The guy selling it said he got it in non-running condition from a buddy four years ago and had it stored in his heated garage ever since. He had replaced the spark plugs and fuel filter and put in 40 bucks worth of gas, but couldn't do more than make it backfire a few times, so he gave up. I didn't know anything about Yamahas, and figured since it was so cheap I could just pop in an engine from a Jimmy or something if it didn't work. I had the starter bushings replaced today so it would crank at more than 45 rpm, and found that the spark plug wires were out of order (exciting!) After replacing the old cap, rotor and wires according to the firing order it still popped and farted. I decided that the distributor must have been removed at some point, since the rotor wasn't pointing to cylinder 1 at TDC 1. Upon removing the distributor, I discovered that it was covered in dreaded milky white oil. The oil on the dipstick was clean, which just shows that someone in the boat's dark past had changed it out for some reason. Long story short: I'm planning on a trip to the local scrapyard to pull an engine to replace the broken one. I'm obviously going to need some gaskets, etc. but I'm on a limited budget and hope to have it going in a week. Any advice, warnings? Ken? Anybody?