1978 chrysler 105
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- Oct 15, 2018
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ingot this boat for 1600 it’s my first boat. One to learn the ropes and crash into the dock with....
took it out first time just after buying it, we finally got her to start up, and enjoyed half a day in the lake with my two older brothers. Through out the day an alarm would start going off, I thought it was a water alarm at first thinking it needed the pump turned on to get the water out. Later I found out it’s a heat alarm wired to the motor. It would come on for about a minute then go off mostly we were trying to troll at as slow as I could get the motor to go with out disengageing.
So problem 1 the heat alarm goes off and on when I take it out.
problem 2 when I try to engage forward or back it does a lot of clicking, less if I slam it into forward. “ from what I read it’s adjustments would love a step by step instructions for dummies.
Problem 3 the 3rd time I went to take it out was 2 days after the second time only time it was not on the trickle charger over night. Got to the lake and batterie was dead! “6 year old deer start. Needs new batterie but, we got a jump start from someone and took it out for some fun started trolling around then the alarm went off! At the time I didn’t know what alarm, so I disconnected the wire attaching to it. Then maybe a minute or two later the engine just shut off! We were only out maybe 10 minutes! Not long enough to give the batteries a charge! We were dead on the water
and the paddle and tiny trolling motor on the mostly dead batteries were not enough to get us back. Someone eventually towed us in! Few! Not a fun feeling!
we called it quits packed it up went home.
So so now I test batterie I need to get another, got a cat jumper pack for emergencies, going to get an ever start for 58 bucks can’t beat that get 3 lol
i tried to winterize the boat with antifreeze and the muffs with a hose and funnel 5 feet above the motor used like 1 full container of antifreeze but it never came out of the squirt holes on top..... started it up reved it couple times let it run some fuel stability stuff into the motor, but could not get it to come out of the holes like I wanted to see on top....
was this because I need to have to attached to a hose with pressure first to fill the motor with water first to make it work or should my muffs with hose and funnel using gravity and a container and half of antifreeze now all over the ground enough to should have done it???
also changed the oil with the 3 plugs on bottom and put in new gear oil. The old oil seemed a little very little milky bit not like fresh oil!
So now, I need to buy a batterie! I can’t find a good owners manual with how to instructions for my model, or a new water pump replacement kit for my model... I have my trailer take. Appart with the one bolt that holds the front half of trailer to frame so it fits in my garage where it’s sitting with a little heater set to 47 degrees hopefully keeping it warm enough in my little garage because I’m not confident the antifreeze made it everywhere.
What should I start with what to buy and just do or what to buy to test my oil seals at 10 psi
instructions and links to parts tools needed purchased would be so great full!
Done my fair share of wrench turning but the Jeep forums make it so easy to learn and understand how to build a crawler! Wonder if anybody in the boats world is the same type of people! The ones that just live to help and talk about the stuff they love doing!
Thanks for any and all help in advance and sorry for grammar or spelling check most of the typing goes off screen per phone also trying to add picture when I select one it says above file limit size of 2.00mb stupid! Then says please select at least one! You won’t let me!
took it out first time just after buying it, we finally got her to start up, and enjoyed half a day in the lake with my two older brothers. Through out the day an alarm would start going off, I thought it was a water alarm at first thinking it needed the pump turned on to get the water out. Later I found out it’s a heat alarm wired to the motor. It would come on for about a minute then go off mostly we were trying to troll at as slow as I could get the motor to go with out disengageing.
So problem 1 the heat alarm goes off and on when I take it out.
problem 2 when I try to engage forward or back it does a lot of clicking, less if I slam it into forward. “ from what I read it’s adjustments would love a step by step instructions for dummies.
Problem 3 the 3rd time I went to take it out was 2 days after the second time only time it was not on the trickle charger over night. Got to the lake and batterie was dead! “6 year old deer start. Needs new batterie but, we got a jump start from someone and took it out for some fun started trolling around then the alarm went off! At the time I didn’t know what alarm, so I disconnected the wire attaching to it. Then maybe a minute or two later the engine just shut off! We were only out maybe 10 minutes! Not long enough to give the batteries a charge! We were dead on the water
and the paddle and tiny trolling motor on the mostly dead batteries were not enough to get us back. Someone eventually towed us in! Few! Not a fun feeling!we called it quits packed it up went home.
So so now I test batterie I need to get another, got a cat jumper pack for emergencies, going to get an ever start for 58 bucks can’t beat that get 3 lol
i tried to winterize the boat with antifreeze and the muffs with a hose and funnel 5 feet above the motor used like 1 full container of antifreeze but it never came out of the squirt holes on top..... started it up reved it couple times let it run some fuel stability stuff into the motor, but could not get it to come out of the holes like I wanted to see on top....
was this because I need to have to attached to a hose with pressure first to fill the motor with water first to make it work or should my muffs with hose and funnel using gravity and a container and half of antifreeze now all over the ground enough to should have done it???
also changed the oil with the 3 plugs on bottom and put in new gear oil. The old oil seemed a little very little milky bit not like fresh oil!
So now, I need to buy a batterie! I can’t find a good owners manual with how to instructions for my model, or a new water pump replacement kit for my model... I have my trailer take. Appart with the one bolt that holds the front half of trailer to frame so it fits in my garage where it’s sitting with a little heater set to 47 degrees hopefully keeping it warm enough in my little garage because I’m not confident the antifreeze made it everywhere.
What should I start with what to buy and just do or what to buy to test my oil seals at 10 psi
instructions and links to parts tools needed purchased would be so great full!
Done my fair share of wrench turning but the Jeep forums make it so easy to learn and understand how to build a crawler! Wonder if anybody in the boats world is the same type of people! The ones that just live to help and talk about the stuff they love doing!
Thanks for any and all help in advance and sorry for grammar or spelling check most of the typing goes off screen per phone also trying to add picture when I select one it says above file limit size of 2.00mb stupid! Then says please select at least one! You won’t let me!
Sorry I'm old and don't get out much