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Ever had one of those weekends?
PickleRick
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Was supposed to head to the lake early Saturday morning. Going to help my dad finish putting the metal carport over his 5th wheel at their lake home. At 7am our help called in sick.
No worries ill still head down and see what we can get done.
Pull out of the drive way at 730, at the end of the road my trailer pops off the hitch. Luckily I'm doing 5mph and i can turn off the road immediately. My floor jack is not in the excursion, it's under my car where im swapping a clutch. I use a bottle jack and my 11 yr old helps me work it high enough to get the tongue back up. No idea how it popped off, it was pad locked on. Once reinstalled i double checked it. Good to go for sure this time.
Pull into the store to get ice and notice a bearing buddy fly off. Pulled over to orileys to get a cheap dust cap so i can clean/seal her back on later. They dont have any so i buy a punch set to nearl the hub/bearing buddy in the parking lot. I jack up the boat( i went and got jack after the trailer jumped off) only to find loose hub bearings. I then rebuild the hub in the orileys parking lot.
Get to lake at 10pm
Awake at 7am next morning to find battery 1 is dead because i didn't turn the perko to both batteries and the nav lights killed it running all night. I run my genny all night so im used to waking to full batteries but it will only charge battery number 2 if i don't switch to both batteries. I need to remedy this. I usually don't keep nav lights on all night but we anchored in a different spot and didnt trust just the led transom lights that i plug into the genny when at anchor. I cannot hear other boats over the AC blowing.
I took my kid to a busy bridge for some magnet fishing and lost an alternator belt. We found a nail, an AA battery and a bread tie. Didn't just lose the belt, it was destroyed.
A trip to the auto parts store and now im charging but then notice a trim tab hose is has split. Kiddo wants to go tubing so we boat the rest of today with no tabs. Now i have spares of both belts and both are new.
Im glad to be home!!! I hope the rest of you had a smoother weekend.
No worries ill still head down and see what we can get done.
Pull out of the drive way at 730, at the end of the road my trailer pops off the hitch. Luckily I'm doing 5mph and i can turn off the road immediately. My floor jack is not in the excursion, it's under my car where im swapping a clutch. I use a bottle jack and my 11 yr old helps me work it high enough to get the tongue back up. No idea how it popped off, it was pad locked on. Once reinstalled i double checked it. Good to go for sure this time.
Pull into the store to get ice and notice a bearing buddy fly off. Pulled over to orileys to get a cheap dust cap so i can clean/seal her back on later. They dont have any so i buy a punch set to nearl the hub/bearing buddy in the parking lot. I jack up the boat( i went and got jack after the trailer jumped off) only to find loose hub bearings. I then rebuild the hub in the orileys parking lot.
Get to lake at 10pm
Awake at 7am next morning to find battery 1 is dead because i didn't turn the perko to both batteries and the nav lights killed it running all night. I run my genny all night so im used to waking to full batteries but it will only charge battery number 2 if i don't switch to both batteries. I need to remedy this. I usually don't keep nav lights on all night but we anchored in a different spot and didnt trust just the led transom lights that i plug into the genny when at anchor. I cannot hear other boats over the AC blowing.
I took my kid to a busy bridge for some magnet fishing and lost an alternator belt. We found a nail, an AA battery and a bread tie. Didn't just lose the belt, it was destroyed.
A trip to the auto parts store and now im charging but then notice a trim tab hose is has split. Kiddo wants to go tubing so we boat the rest of today with no tabs. Now i have spares of both belts and both are new.
Im glad to be home!!! I hope the rest of you had a smoother weekend.
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Ian
The Third “B”
Secretary, Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club
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Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express
Oil filter: 2 more hours. Shop that changed it last didn't use an o-ring, they used RTV sealant. WTF? Ended up ripping it to little pieces and grinding the base plate with an angle grinder.
Sterndrive oil was easier to deal with, although it only held half the oil I expected it to, and no burping happened despite trying for the next hour. Stored the remaining 2 quarts in the boat - I'll have to massage it in idle to try to burp it at the ramp.
Just as I finished I cut my big toe on a hose clamp tail, and by Thursday had a horrible infection. Three trips to the docs before Saturday, no boating over the weekend. Wife got sick Saturday too - stomach bug - so the whole reason I took the day to complete this was shot. Still haven't done the critical stuff required to comfortably spend more than a night on the boat - fans, LED lighting, tuning the genny.
Does anyone have any experience keeping a hatch mounted ac on semi permanently? The ac in the aft berth is a bit of a pain to move around. Luckily only my son sleeps there but if i had guests they wouldn't want to crawl around that thing unless they were acrobats.
@PickleRick: instead of moving the whole AC get an Attwood Quiet Blower, 10' of 4" hose, and 10' of wire with a cigarette adapter on the end. It's so quiet you won't hear it over the AC, and it'll move a ton of air. Super hot nights it really helps even out the temps inside. You don't need the hose either - that just lets us put the blower on either end (or like last time - cut the hose in half and put the blower in the middle so it wasn't near either sleeping area (it was tap tap tapping where the plastic touched the floor).
But don't cry for me, Argentina ... you know the only thing that hasn't let me down? My bulletproof Rinker!
I got my trim tab lines placed, boat leveler hose isn't as common a size as I'd have thought. Took 3 trips to different places to get it sorted. I need to pull off the boat leveler tabs and repalce them with the Bennett tabs i have on my scrap boat this winter.
Doesnt look like I'm launching this weekend, have work to do at my dad's lake house all day Saturday and then an inspection for a guy buying a VW on Sunday. So dad needs help and my consultation fee will pay for fuel and beer next weekend. Supposed to be crappy weather this weekend anyway. My 235 fv doesnt sleep well through a storm compared to my sailboat. Im always nervous dropping anchor in deep coves that would protect me from all directions, never know what kind of stumps/roots/trees i could foul up on.
Got a call yesterday that they were not able to get to it, got this picture sent to me today saying something about a prop shaft seal.
Now I had a backup plan...there was a marina here where I'm living that I'd be talking to for 2 months. Asking them if they could fix it if my first marina falls through. They have been saying yes everytime, UNTIL YESTERDAY, and suddenly now their I/O guy is going to school on Monday. GREAT.
Have been calling around, not many I/O guys in Key Largo apparently...so in the end the main thing is it's going to now cost 1000 bucks in lifting it off the trailer and to a work area and then from the work area to the water after it's fixed. If the original marina would have worked on it they would have waived those fees, but now a 3rd party is coming in.. such is life. So it'll be 1000 bucks to start....and I'm sure they'll tell me "oh another 10k for a drive sir"
Whatever!
At this point I'd think the noise would be caused from water in the drive oil as I've been seeing small amounts of it in that oil for a while, the same guy (marina mechanic/owner) has been telling me to just keep swapping oil every winter.
I'd assume maybe some of the gears up top are messed up from water in there?
At this point I'm going to have to drop it in somewhere in Key Largo, limp it to my dock, wait there for 2 or 3 weeks and then bring it to the mechanic here to have it taken out and worked on.. gotta love it.
From where i launch to the hwy is a good 20 min drive on long country back roads so in theory my drums should be good and dry by then. I daily drove a 1967 fj40 for nearly a decade, factory 4 wheel drum brakes and widow maker single reservoir manual brake master cylinder. I did eventually convert to newer front axle with 4 runner dual piston calipers and a dual reservoir(kept it manual) master cylinder. After a water or mud crossing or launching a boat you had better pump those brakes a while before needing them. When i first got it i blew through a 4 way stop after launching a boat! Even a mud puddle could cause it to pull hard to one side. Just so we are all clear i converted that fj40 to a sbc v8 then diesel because better.
Fingers crossed all my parts come in this week so I can launch on Saturday. I hate having parts come in on Friday then im up at the crack of dawn Saturday scrambling to get her on the the water by lunch. If i wanted to rush to get repairs done every weekend id have taken up racing. On Saturdays the most work I want to do is making my coffee.