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How to put it in a nice way...I am so F****** disgusted and P***** off,that I am ready to set fire to my entire boat, and hope fully the house will go up with it!
I got a new used lower unit for my tower of power inline 6. The reason for that was that I had no reverse and I had to rev it up before it would engage forward.
So, happy, happy, Joy, joy, I put it in the water yesterday, after putting a brand new water pump, complete, on it. Fired it up, and lo-and behold, beautiful stream coming out of the pee-hole...WOW! even had reverse for the first time and it worked beautifully, forward was just as nice. No unnecessary revving required to engage.
Marvelous! Ok time for some fishin...
Cruised around, fished some, actually caught a nice keeper...
THEN it happened...
Was cruisin at WOT, and sputter, sputter, engine quits... Smokin like San Francisco on a foggy day...WTF???
Tried crankin the engine after a few minutes and nuthin!
It would crank, but not start... approximately 2-3 miles from the dock...
Well, I am in a canal, so I had my first mate get off at the edge of the canal, and tow, while I kept the boat off the rocks on the edge...
Then he would get in, and we would use the trolling motor to get past the bridges...
As we got closer to the dock, I just ran us in with the trolling motor.
Anyhow, at one point I tried to re start the engine, after it had cooled down...
After several attempts, using PB Blaster as a lube, and starting fluid, sprayed into the carbs, it fired up at full throttle, BUT...
No flow from the pee-hole!
So I shut it down and proceeded to get us back to the dock...
Almost 2 and a half hours later, 2 dead batteries, one fried trolling motor connection later, we made it back.
So, today I pull the lower and find the impeller is toast...
I pulled the plugs, and No. 1 plug has a nice coating of burnt melted aluminum on it...
Ran a compression test... first without any oil in the cylinders and got the following readings
#1-90 psi
#2-85psi
#3-10psi
#4-150psi
#5-150psi
#6-145psi
Then, I poured some oil in the weak cylinders and rechecked
#1-130psi, when the oil got blown out, back to about 90psi.
#2-130, then back to 85-90psi
#3-120psi, 90psi, 60 psi, 30psi, then back to 0-10psi
I suppose something got sucked up and blocked the flow of water to the engine at some point, but by the time it happened, it was TOO F-ing late...
Yeah, I know in hindsight everything is 20/20, and I should get a water temp gauge or a water pressure gauge for the future,:facepalm: but it is too late for those ideas at this point...
I also tried muffs on the lower, before any cranking, and no water would come out of the pee-hole.
I disconnected the pee-hole hose and put pressurized water from the hose into it and water was seeping out of the #2 cylinder spark plug area.
I guess the engine is fried, but would appreciate any suggestions, as to what I might look into, and if there is any hope, for resucitating this old Tower of Power.
Otherwise, I my have to look into either a Psychiatrist, Shrink, or a really long time before I can save up enough to fix or replace this motor.
This sucks to the umpteeenth degree, but if any one can give me a path to follow, you will have prevented a possible suicide...
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions...
Extremely depressed and anxious to go fishing, Gus
I got a new used lower unit for my tower of power inline 6. The reason for that was that I had no reverse and I had to rev it up before it would engage forward.
So, happy, happy, Joy, joy, I put it in the water yesterday, after putting a brand new water pump, complete, on it. Fired it up, and lo-and behold, beautiful stream coming out of the pee-hole...WOW! even had reverse for the first time and it worked beautifully, forward was just as nice. No unnecessary revving required to engage.
Marvelous! Ok time for some fishin...
Cruised around, fished some, actually caught a nice keeper...
THEN it happened...
Was cruisin at WOT, and sputter, sputter, engine quits... Smokin like San Francisco on a foggy day...WTF???
Tried crankin the engine after a few minutes and nuthin!
It would crank, but not start... approximately 2-3 miles from the dock...
Well, I am in a canal, so I had my first mate get off at the edge of the canal, and tow, while I kept the boat off the rocks on the edge...
Then he would get in, and we would use the trolling motor to get past the bridges...
As we got closer to the dock, I just ran us in with the trolling motor.
Anyhow, at one point I tried to re start the engine, after it had cooled down...
After several attempts, using PB Blaster as a lube, and starting fluid, sprayed into the carbs, it fired up at full throttle, BUT...
No flow from the pee-hole!
So I shut it down and proceeded to get us back to the dock...
Almost 2 and a half hours later, 2 dead batteries, one fried trolling motor connection later, we made it back.
So, today I pull the lower and find the impeller is toast...
I pulled the plugs, and No. 1 plug has a nice coating of burnt melted aluminum on it...
Ran a compression test... first without any oil in the cylinders and got the following readings
#1-90 psi
#2-85psi
#3-10psi
#4-150psi
#5-150psi
#6-145psi
Then, I poured some oil in the weak cylinders and rechecked
#1-130psi, when the oil got blown out, back to about 90psi.
#2-130, then back to 85-90psi
#3-120psi, 90psi, 60 psi, 30psi, then back to 0-10psi
I suppose something got sucked up and blocked the flow of water to the engine at some point, but by the time it happened, it was TOO F-ing late...
Yeah, I know in hindsight everything is 20/20, and I should get a water temp gauge or a water pressure gauge for the future,:facepalm: but it is too late for those ideas at this point...
I also tried muffs on the lower, before any cranking, and no water would come out of the pee-hole.
I disconnected the pee-hole hose and put pressurized water from the hose into it and water was seeping out of the #2 cylinder spark plug area.
I guess the engine is fried, but would appreciate any suggestions, as to what I might look into, and if there is any hope, for resucitating this old Tower of Power.
Otherwise, I my have to look into either a Psychiatrist, Shrink, or a really long time before I can save up enough to fix or replace this motor.
This sucks to the umpteeenth degree, but if any one can give me a path to follow, you will have prevented a possible suicide...
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions...
Extremely depressed and anxious to go fishing, Gus
