First post and man do I feel like an idiot! I’m not a new boat owner but made a rookie mistake and need some reassurance I didn’t screw something up. So I replaced the water pump on my 2000 NS90A after it had been giving me low pressure alarms. It definitely needed it because at some point the impeller cover started spinning inside the pump cover and started melting it. All went well with the repair. I greased all the water pump parts including the impeller so that the first start ups wouldn’t be dry. Hooked up the muffs, turned on the water and she fired right up and peed like a champ! That was the day before yesterday.
Yesterday I was getting her ready to take out and I like to fire her up before we leave to make sure all is well. However I missed the most important step: forgot to turn on the hose! I checked my Ring camera and she ran for exactly 15 seconds at idle until I shut her off. You can hear me say “you’ve got to be kidding me!” On the camera. I beat myself up for a minute, turned on the hose and she fired right up and spit just as good a stream of water as the first time I ran her. We still took her out and she ran fine with no alarms and peed a strong stream the whole trip.
Sorry that was so long but wanted to give the whole story. I’d hate to snatch the lower unit off just to check and see I’ve done no damage but I will if that’s the smartest thing to do. I’m hoping since I greased everything with good quality marine grease and ran it with water the day before that 15 seconds didn’t hurt anything. What do you all think? Thank you in advance for your responses!
Yesterday I was getting her ready to take out and I like to fire her up before we leave to make sure all is well. However I missed the most important step: forgot to turn on the hose! I checked my Ring camera and she ran for exactly 15 seconds at idle until I shut her off. You can hear me say “you’ve got to be kidding me!” On the camera. I beat myself up for a minute, turned on the hose and she fired right up and spit just as good a stream of water as the first time I ran her. We still took her out and she ran fine with no alarms and peed a strong stream the whole trip.
Sorry that was so long but wanted to give the whole story. I’d hate to snatch the lower unit off just to check and see I’ve done no damage but I will if that’s the smartest thing to do. I’m hoping since I greased everything with good quality marine grease and ran it with water the day before that 15 seconds didn’t hurt anything. What do you all think? Thank you in advance for your responses!
