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[color=#3300ff]In 2001, I had to work out of town for about a year and when I finally got back home and took my boat out again at the end of the year, I discovered that my bow eye had wallowed out and I was taking water into the anchor well around the bow eye.
My kids had reached high school and middle school age, and with all their activities, the boat sat idle and I never got around to repairing the fiberglass. I eventually got into kayak fishing and all my spare time was spent fishing from my yaks, while my Nauset sat in the garage and became a general purpose storage and junk holder.
After a couple of years, I resigned myself to the fact that the neglect that I had inflicted upon my engine was not going to be good and figured that in the Houston humidity, my engine had surely seized up, as I had not taken any storage precautions for the duration while it sat idle.
I FINALLY cleaned my boat off and pulled it out of the garage last weekend. I bought a new battery and the tilt and trim worked fine. I sprayed a little penetrating oil into the cylinders and later that day I decided to try the ignition key and just see what the engine did. I was all ready to turn it right back off to keep from tearing up the teeth on my starter gear.
But to my surprise, the engine turned over! I bought a couple of gallons of fresh gas and the engine ran great. I kept an eye on the water pump stream and it ran strong the whole time. However, I am going to do all the little maintenance items that need to be done: water pump, lower unit oil, trailer tires, but I should be back in business as soon as I get down to Joe Orlando, the Whaler expert in League City, to fix my bow eye.
Bottom line is, that I get a GREAT BIG SMILE when I think about my Suzuki cranking over like it did after seven long years of sitting idle.
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I am back in the game! [/color]
Edited by Tom W Clark on 09/09/08 - 3:21 PM
1985 Outrage 18
