4Winns2
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Nov 2, 2006
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I'm stumped. (Sorry in advance for the long post.)
My boat: 1990 Four Winns 4.3 litre OMC Cobra.
What happened? Blew a water inlet hose on the drive; boat overheated and I shut her down. Let her cool down and tried to re-start: click, click click and a tow back to the marina. Bear in mind I was having the click starter beforehand and tightening and cleaning connections apparently had fixed this.
Pulled the drive and the pivot housing to replace hose and both bellows and grease the U-joints.
Went to start her up and click, click, & click. Pulled Don's well done starter guide and printed it. Took my test light and everything seemed to check out: test lit at appropriate places on both the starter and slave solenoids; although, the light was week on the slave terminal that you check while attempting to click the switch to start. No meter test was done. I also had pulled the plugs to see if there was water, none. Tried to manually turn the engine over with a breaker bar, won't budge.
Replaced the starter and starter solenoid last night. Click, click, click. The only part left in the circuit is the slave solenoid. I'm just wondering is it possible to seize the engine on such a short overheat. Jeez, boats overheat all the time and don't seize engines but now I'm wondering if I did?
Oil looks fine in the crankcase- -no milkshake. Do I start beer drinking on land now and call it a season? Your suggestions are appreciated in advance.
My boat: 1990 Four Winns 4.3 litre OMC Cobra.
What happened? Blew a water inlet hose on the drive; boat overheated and I shut her down. Let her cool down and tried to re-start: click, click click and a tow back to the marina. Bear in mind I was having the click starter beforehand and tightening and cleaning connections apparently had fixed this.
Pulled the drive and the pivot housing to replace hose and both bellows and grease the U-joints.
Went to start her up and click, click, & click. Pulled Don's well done starter guide and printed it. Took my test light and everything seemed to check out: test lit at appropriate places on both the starter and slave solenoids; although, the light was week on the slave terminal that you check while attempting to click the switch to start. No meter test was done. I also had pulled the plugs to see if there was water, none. Tried to manually turn the engine over with a breaker bar, won't budge.
Replaced the starter and starter solenoid last night. Click, click, click. The only part left in the circuit is the slave solenoid. I'm just wondering is it possible to seize the engine on such a short overheat. Jeez, boats overheat all the time and don't seize engines but now I'm wondering if I did?
Oil looks fine in the crankcase- -no milkshake. Do I start beer drinking on land now and call it a season? Your suggestions are appreciated in advance.