[SPLASHED] I/O (Sterndrive) Conversion to Outboards

[Lou C]

Thats the street I told my brother not to buy on lol!

 

[Lou C]

Maybe 5 feet above sea level
I’m about 80-90 above

 

[nola mike]

That’s me. And as usual Edgartown harbor is flooded.

I think I mentioned some where around here that I waited tables at EYC, lived on chappy. Used to "borrow" tenders from the harbor to get home after the bars/ferry closed if the harbormaster wouldn't give us a ride. For some reason nobody gave us a hard time about it, and we returned them the next day if they were still there... Good times!

 

[tphoyt]

I recall you says this. Not sure how old you now but I’m guessing you may have known Bill Roman as he was the GM for 40 years. He just recently retired. Back in my cooking days I would work the mother day brunch at the YC.
One year I was waiting around in ankle deep water cooking breakfast. They raised the build several years ago so it doesn’t flood anymore.

 

[tpenfield]

The past few days, I've been back & forth to the boat (just outside the garage) to do the grease gun stuff and change the lower unit lube.

Every time I'd get out there when the rain stopped, it would quickly start up again. So as not to accidentally get any drops of water in the LU, I'd button things up and go back inside. It got done, but not without adding a few thousand steps to my day .

Today, will be oil change day and then on to de-scaling solution.

 

[tpenfield]

Maybe 5 feet above sea level
I’m about 80-90 above

I have sea level in my back yard . . .
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The house (first floor) itself is about 12 ft above mean high tide. We rarely see any water rise from a storm though, since the winds are often off shore during such.

 

[Lou C]

the calm after the storm and after cleaning the pool like 10 times to get all the leaves out!
this is about 85' above sea level, in the distance is Asharoken, Eatons Neck and beyond that is LI Sound. On a clear day you can see buildings in Stamford Ct pretty clearly.

 

[tpenfield]

@Lou C . . . Northport?

I got my boat in Port Washington / Manor Haven

 

[Lou C]

Close, Centerport which is right between Huntington & Northport
At the docks in Northport we see boats from Ct all the time.
It’s only about 8-9 miles across at that point.
Your boat was from Port Washington that’s about a half hr west of here.

 

[tpenfield]

Oil change day . . .

I got the starboard engine done, on to the port engine . . .

With 11 qts of oil in each engine, it really comes flying out once the plug is un-fastened.

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[tpenfield]

OK I discovered something weird . . .
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I usually look at the round gauges (Veratron) for engine hours and today noticed they were at 37 hours . But my Honda display tells the real story . . . Just under 20 hours.

I may have left the key on overnight, but if so, it only effected the Veratron displays not the Honda (which probably clock only when the engines are running.

Not sure if I can teak the Veratron displays to show the same data as the Honda display.

 

[Lou C]

And why are there 3 tachometers?

 

[alldodge]

That's different, I have left the keys on to see if hours went up and they didn't change on Mercs

 

[aspeck]

And why are there 3 tachometers?

I was going to ask if he had 3 motors instead of the 2 he led us to believe ...

 

[Lou C]

Honda says, our twins have the thrust of 3 ordinary motors lol.

 

[tpenfield]

The middle gauge act as a speedometer, but it is tied to the port engine for data.

not the best solution - I’m not thrilled with the Veratron gauges

 

[flashback]

Might need to disconnect them until the engines catch up.

 

[tpenfield]

I just hid the incorrect data on the Veratrons . . . Showed trim level and fuel gauge instead . . .
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19 hours on the Honda display is the correct data.
Onto the port engine . . . yesterday was all learning curve, but today went smoother.
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Oil changes are a lot easier than with the Mercruisers. so, I got that going for me . . .

 

[Lou C]

beats crawling under an I/O engine anyday.
today I changed the oil in my B&S generator that ran 25 hrs in the weekend's storm.

 

[tpenfield]

Yesterday was 'Fuel Off-loading Day 1' . . . I pumped out 40 gallons of gasoline from the boat (so far). At 5 gallons intervals, I checked the fuel gauge to see what its reading was. Each year I pump out until I get air, then I add back enough for fogging of the engines. The next year I start with fresh fuel. anyway, I digress. . .

When I started off-loading fuel, the gauge read 43% (150 gallon tank), so guessing about 65 gallons in the tank (maybe). I recorded the gauge readings as I went.

Pumping out in increments . . .
-5 gallons ( 5 total) / 40%
-5 more gallons (10 total) / 28%
-5 more gallons (15 total) / 29%
-5 more gallons (20 total) / 29%
-5 more gallons (25 total) / 21%
-5 more gallons (30 total) / 6% (low fuel warning)
-5 more gallons (35 total) / 6% (low fuel warning)
-5 more gallons (40 total) / 0% (low fuel warning)

I would expect 3-4% drop with each 5 gallons of fuel removed, so the sender is probably having issues. Since the gauge is now at 0%, I suspect that there is not much fuel left (maybe 10 gallons)

The sender is the WEMA 1306 style, which I believe is a reed-switch sender.
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My plan is to take it out for inspection and resistance testing. I'll also be able to get a look at the tank internals.

When I bought the boat, the fuel gauge readings were a bit strange . . . That has remained so in the conversion from SmartCraft to NMEA2K instrumentation.