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OT: How to repair a boat motor

15 years ago

Are these the proper tools to be using for this job when you are an automobile mechanic instead of a boat mechanic, lol? Should I be concerned yet? It was bad enough he had the camera up here taking pics of each part as he took it off so he could put it back together again. Yikes!

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chena
15 years ago
LMAO!!!!
karyn1
15 years ago
I'd really start worrying if you see a chainsaw. LOL
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fool4flowers
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15 years ago
Lol, he says I have no faith in him but he is hard headed and won't listen to me, lol.
ibartoo
15 years ago
That could be scarry. I would think about being busy the first time the boat goes back out. LOL
chena
15 years ago
Larry and Curly Where is Moe???
jeep461
15 years ago
I believe they have it licked. The hardest part was removing the engine to the lower units bolts. LOL At least here. (corrosion) The experts here use Maalox on the bolts when they go back in. Go figure I thought Maalox was for when it broke.

Rubber hammer and baseball bat is just for motivation. It's a man thing.

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knotz
15 years ago
Ha...That's funny :)
fool4flowers
Original Author
15 years ago
Roflamo, Jim. John says thanks for the vote of support, lol. It takes a man to understand these things I guess. He is having a birthday Saturday and says I am making him feel old with all my worrying, lol. As long as there are no leftover parts I will be ok with it. He is taking it to get the cylinders bored out tomorrow.
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15 years ago
Just take a lot of food out on the lake with you...maybe a paddel to row row your boat back to shore roflmao.

Your John is knocking us dead with his funny pictures lol

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15 years ago
You all are cracking me up again. This is funny.

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jumpin4joy
15 years ago
As long as you HAVE a few parts left over once its put toghther you should be fine. I find this works for us. There are always left over screws. lOL
daniellalell
15 years ago
LMFAO!!!! Hope thats not how your son is getting his surgery!
Men..sigh..

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fool4flowers
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He took it to Waco to get the cylinder heads bored today and they were pretty bad. I sure hope its fixable. Still at work. Just finished pay roll and bills. Now I'm broke again, lol. John is gonna have eggs for dinner tonight I think. See you all later I'm going home finally.
maemae0312
15 years ago
Kristy, my Daddy was a mechanic, if we didn't have left over parts we would be worried. Why aren't you out there helping??? I used to grind a pretty good valve. Daddy ussed to say if I was going to drive it I had to at least help fix it or pay the mechanic. It wasn't until I lost him that I realized how valuable a good mechanic is.

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fool4flowers
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15 years ago
Awe Mary he must have been a great dad. I diagnose the problems over the computer and tell him what to check for, lol. I can listen to an engine and tell you whats wrong with it and how much to fix it but can't do the work, lol. It took me an hour to change a battery for a customer one day when I was working by myself, lol. If he had listened to me in the beginning with the boat it wouldn't have gotten so bad. I researched the kind of motor we had and the symptoms and told him to check the compression and he never did. He replaced all kinds of other parts instead and it got worse, lol. He is an excellent car and truck mechanic but boats are different and now he is going to have to learn them top to bottom, lol.
eloise_ca
15 years ago
This is too funny Kristy, and the rest of you with your input! Never a dull moment around here, LOL!
maemae0312
15 years ago
Kristy, they never listen!!! I used to call my Dad whenever my ex was going to work on my car (I had a sports car at the time) and tell him what all my ex was doing to make sure it was ok.........this of course was done in secret and many times I had to hang up and have my dad just happen to call at the right moment to talk to him.

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