The iboats forum moderators are excited to announce that at this time it appears the iboats forums posting pictures function is working once again. Though we cannot promise for how long, we're hoping for indefinitely.
I see a lot of posts on engines overheating under various conditions. Mine overheated after 3-5 minutes at full throttle. After reading lots and lots of posts, I decided to tear the damn thing down and do some looking. Look what I found! Seal was smashed on feed tube coming up from the water...
Troubleshot all the usual suspects. Replaced impeller, (old one looked fine) bottom pump wear plate. It's peeing fine. Replaced t-stat. Did a reverse flush through thermostat hole and did get some black oily carbon deposits in the bucket, with lower unit pulled. This makes me think exhaust is...
