Must be winter

Ian

No posts for 2 days…..

Formulaben

Yup.    
Hopefully there will be a lot of activity here shortly, March is right around the corner.

Dream_Inn

yes, very soon there will be more topics.  I was just looking, and last year I had the boat out on the bay on March 2nd.  I may be a week later this year, just depending on the weather here.  It has been much colder.

captkevin

Supposed to be almost 50 here next week - won't be long

LaRea

OK I will post something.  Today I figured out that a loose bolt destroyed my washer-dryer.

You know washing machines sometimes shake like crazy in the spin cycle, right?  Well, the drum has a concrete counter-weight to help keep it balanced.  It's held on by two bolts, one of which apparently fell out.  Eventually the other bolt broke, so the weight fell off.  Without the weight for balance, the drum went crazy and bashed into the control panel.  As part of the mayhem, something caused a short that burned up the primary power relay and almost started a fire.  

Bottom left, concrete counter-weight.  Top right, toasted power relay.  

captkevin

Washing machines can be a real pain in the butt. We had a front loader for 14 years that developed a violent shake for 5 seconds. Would vibrate itself across the room. Tried everything. Ended up replacing it with top loaders.

J3ff

Ian said:

No posts for 2 days…..

i'll fix that for you 

LaRea

Is it still winter, or is everybody too busy doing spring prep work?

Ian

24 here this morning so the old man is still around.

captkevin

We had snow on Thursday. Started working on projects at lake house trying to get things ready for summer.

Formulaben

LaRea said:

Is it still winter, or is everybody too busy doing spring prep work?

100%. My list is huge, and we're finally getting warm enough here to work on the boat. The big ones this year for me are solar bimini, outdrive steering pin, bellows & gimbal bearing, impeller pump conversion, washdown pump installation, full polish, and maybe new flooring. I also have dozens (upon dozens) of smaller items, but all of them deferrable if I don't get the big ones done. I'll be quite busy right up until splash day, hopefully mid-May, but no later than the 21st for a long holiday weekend on the water. 

GMSLITHO

how are you doing the steering pin 

Formulaben

Doing the kit from JR Marine. 

https://www.jrmarine.com/instructions.htm

GMSLITHO

I did that a while ago its not too bad Make sure you replace the top and bottom bushings that the pin sits in 

J3ff

Was in the pool today for about an hour, air was colder than the water... def winter... have the windows open and passing out in bed soon. Love it. 

J3ff

Formulaben said:

Doing the kit from JR Marine. 

https://www.jrmarine.com/instructions.htm

This is in my future.. not looking forward to it. 

Formulaben

Me neither, but after watching a couple videos I think it's doable. I'm just praying my gimbal ring is rounded out, as there is a fair amount of slop in the steering. 

YYZRC

Replacing the pins was a terrible job with the transom assembly removed from the boat. I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to do it through a tiny access window. 

GMSLITHO

Formulaben said:

Me neither, but after watching a couple videos I think it's doable. I'm just praying my gimbal ring is rounded out, as there is a fair amount of slop in the steering. 

I replaced mine with a stainless steel one ,It was nice but i think it added some extra weight back there that I didn't need if I would do it again I would replace it with the original 

YYZRC

Anyone tried an SEI transom assembly yet?

https://www.sterndrive.cc/Complete_Transom_Assembly.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqwwMwqOe0B_-b285RywVbO1u2AL8fjRhMGupYnWwEG8Pwvcuuv