1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

[jigngrub]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

I heard all the Salmon in the great lakes swam away and are never coming back.

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

I heard all the Salmon in the great lakes swam away and are never coming back.

They heard my boat was done

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Well.... Mixed emotions about today.

Got up around 430 and headed to pick up my father to give her a test bath and eventually go fishing. Beautiful morning!


Launched, everything went fine, no water in bilge. Headed out the channel, got to thee end, gave her the throttle and she jumped on plane faster than she ever has. I mean this thing is snappy!

...

Then she completely gave out.


Started back up no problem, wanted to die the more has I have it, so figured fuel issue. Checked out the screen, tank vent, bulb was hard. Plugs were wet, but had carbon - plus they are a few seasons old so decided to pull her at 630 and get plugs.

Got new plugs in and back on the water by 10.

Took her out, got on plane and the motor ran like a top. Made some on the fly timing tweaks to resolve some hesitation at mid range, and after that it was good. It still hesitates slightly at mid but I can live with it till this fall/winter when I can get any marine mechanic to call me back.

Got to fishing around 1030 and put about an hour in. Landed two rainbows, kept one that was not going to make it.

First pic is slime from the first fish for proof. Lol had to get it back in the water.

Came in due to impending storms and half way in the motor kicks back to 2 cylinders... Now a new problem to try to fix.

I'm thinking of completely re-doing all of the wiring on the motor at this point, but that means messing around with the connectors which i don't really want to do.

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Gear worked great!

Sonar picking up a ball of bait fish

 

[jigngrub]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Lookin' good Carp!


... I told you all the Salmoons were gone.

 

[Triton II]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Fantastic to see she's wet and catching those beautiful trout. Hopefully the motor issue will be something simple. Nice job Carp!

TII

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Yeah i am hoping its simple. I'm afraid I may be running out of steam on this one. I haven't had very good traction with the johnson/evinrude folks on iboats thus far. I think because all of the issues I have had are not obvious. Not a slight to anyone over there, but I think that in addition to posting i need to speak with a tech who knows these motors.

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

mr carpe--

beautiful job---i am currently working on a 1985 S N fish & ski 175, just started , foam out, transom replaced. mine will be a side console. my info plate is missing-----can you provide max hp, weight limit & # persons from yours??

thank you so much

ri rory

hey! yeah i will take a picture of my plate and post it here for you.

 

[rirory]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

thank you

that would be spectacular

i am hoping to have trout slime on my boat in march.

although she should be done in december

ri rory

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Found the problem! (I hope)

Spoke with an evinrude tech over in Michigan, and he was able to point me in the right direction. I ended up running the motor for a few hours yesterday with my wireless office phone next to it. That was connected via intercom to my office phone (I work from home) and I then could listen for the problem to replicate.

Turns out I had a funky ignition wire. Those are now replaced, along with some new champion plugs, and an engine decarb. I still want to get a new coil to have on hand. The tech was thinking that high resistance in the plug wire would heat up the coil and cause it to break down at high temps making the problem intermittent.

It all explains the symptoms, the second splash will likely be tomorrow or Thursday evening.

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Looks good! Good luck on your next splash.

 

[Davem3]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

looking real good, remember it is never really done, just in different stages ..................

 

[bear_69cuda]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Brutha,

Great job on this build! Diggin it big time! Sorry bout the Jonhnyrude setbacks...

Jas shared the link to the manual you hooked him up with! Thanks man!

Have a great weekend!

 

[rirory]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

mr carpe-

please remember to photograph your info plate for me

thanks so much

any more salmonoid slime?????

ri rory

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Hey thought this posted before, but the submit must have timed out!

Motor update:

The final answer is that it ended up being a second bad timer base. Meaning the one that I replaced was bad out of the box. We were camping last week, and after all of the rigamaroo of changing plugs and wires and tearing the thing apart again the problem was still persisting. It got to the point where it would only run on 2 cyl, so at that point it was very easy to diagnose. The issue was getting all of the tools together to pull the flywheel and reset the timing, etc while camping. I called the place I bought the part from and they were able to overnight me a new one at their cost, which was pretty nice. Otherwise the boat fished great, the flooring is excellent on the bare feet and it does not get too hot. Very durable except on the edges where I sealed with sealant, the spray on did not stick as well. My plan from the start was to try and find some trim for that area anyway so it doesn't bother me.

For the size of the boat it is a dream to fish out of and is very functional. The electronics did what they were supposed to do. I bucketed in some water to rinse the slime off of the deck and the bilge pumps worked great as well.

It is very nice having motorized downriggers and a subtroll. I did lose a downrigger ball due to a failed crimp by the previous owner. Lesson learned!

Next up is pulling the motor back off this fall to paint her up.

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Well, the boat is working GREAT and the paint is holding up beautifully. Had it in the water for 10 consecutive days/nights while camping and the paint was fine.

Been out fishing quite a bit, here is a pic of the last fish. 35lb2oz king salmon last Friday.

Been doing very well this season

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

I am really glad I went with the XXXXXXL cooler as well, this guy barely fit in it. Later that evening we had 3 more in there. No way a 2 person limit of mature kings will fit in the box, but thats a good problem to have

 

[jigngrub]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Dang! Skinned the new paint on the console already!

What are you doing with those old things? Making cat food out of them?

They aren't fit for human consumption are they?

 

[carpedium]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

yeah, its a fishing boat. Not too worried about dings and scrapes - I was at first, but all the work went into enjoying the end result- and you really can't do that tip toeing around and crying every time a scrape happens

Actually, the great lakes are pretty clean these days. Lake ontario salmonoids (all species) are the key indicators of the state of the fishery in terms of pollutants, since they are at the top of the food chain. Current recommended meal sizes and frequencies are actually more favorable than many ocean species including Tuna. Tests on Lake O. salmonoids consist of grinding an entire 4 year old fish (as shown above) and testing the pulp. As you know nobody consumes a fish this way, and heavy metals are more concentrated in the non-muscle areas of the fish anyway creating a worst-case recommendation.

In 2010 A private research group tested a representative sample of Lake O salmonoids, and this time only tested muscle samples, minus the lateral line (removed) and found that there were only negligible amounts of pollutants found. The levels found would correlate to no recommended restriction on meal size or frequency.

I'm not a meat fisherman by any means, but based on that I do eat them. Tastes the same or better than store-bought & hasn't sat around for weeks.

 

[jasoutside]

Re: 1987 Sea Nymph SS175 Fish & Ski Rebuild - Tons of pics! *Paint COMPLETE*

Nice catch man and great to hear you had a good trip!