Got to love owning a boat .. mines still not in the water this season .. work on them more than you actually on them but it's addictive being on the water , I think that's way we do to ourselves 😂 love the videos
I totally appreciate the effort and explanation. It's a budget boat after all, why not try the budget fix? Thanks for the content, look forward to whatever project you decide to work on for the next video.
I love this channel. Its the perfect reminder of how buying a bunch of cheap crap and ghetto DYI-ing stuff in an attempt to "save money" always ends up wasting your time and costing more money than had you just bought something new. LOL
Watching you down under- Great ideas for all of us on a boat budject no dought! Great to try a few possible remedies before spashing money on other possibilities- as we say in Australia - BOAT= Break out another thousand!
Guys, if you struggle to get your motor started for a long time, flood the engine severely, or have a stuck carb float, CHANGE YOUR OIL. The motor might not have been 100% to begin with, but I guarantee you this is all because of gas in the oil from when the carb float stuck.
Best way to open an oil filter if you don't have a giant pipe cutter. Use a Swiss army type can opener. The old fashioned ones that you would get on pocket knife
Miced the crank and it was within the old manual’s spec, but it seems like the rod was a little egg shaped, so I should have known it wasn’t going to run very long.
Yea, you always have to look for that horizontal crack on the Mercruiser 2.5 and 3.0 liter engines. That is freeze damage.
Got to love owning a boat .. mines still not in the water this season .. work on them more than you actually on them but it's addictive being on the water , I think that's way we do to ourselves 😂 love the videos
I totally appreciate the effort and explanation. It's a budget boat after all, why not try the budget fix? Thanks for the content, look forward to whatever project you decide to work on for the next video.
I love this channel. Its the perfect reminder of how buying a bunch of cheap crap and ghetto DYI-ing stuff in an attempt to "save money" always ends up wasting your time and costing more money than had you just bought something new. LOL
Say it with me… V8! V8! V8! 350 Mercruisers are a dime a dozen. Slap one in and go boating!
Watching you down under- Great ideas for all of us on a boat budject no dought! Great to try a few possible remedies before spashing money on other possibilities- as we say in Australia - BOAT= Break out another thousand!
Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully us doing it wrong will help some people out.
That motor is total trash with all that welding on the block, jeeze! scrap that pig and move on lol.
Guys, if you struggle to get your motor started for a long time, flood the engine severely, or have a stuck carb float, CHANGE YOUR OIL. The motor might not have been 100% to begin with, but I guarantee you this is all because of gas in the oil from when the carb float stuck.
Best way to open an oil filter if you don't have a giant pipe cutter. Use a Swiss army type can opener. The old fashioned ones that you would get on pocket knife
Good lord boy, buy an oil filter cutter!!!!
Oh she is a great boat hard to find those trihull io keep trying
great video. sorry it didn't work out.
Did you mike the crank and possible put in an over sized bearing (010) to take up the slack ;)
Miced the crank and it was within the old manual’s spec, but it seems like the rod was a little egg shaped, so I should have known it wasn’t going to run very long.
@@Motiv8Labs Loved the videos!
Thanks for this good video! I loved the rednecky crankshaft fix
I think it was because you didn't Fix the water issue getting in the oil
Likely the crack extended into the cylinder(s).
You should have replaced the entire rod the rod has been bent it wore the end of the rod it is oval shaped
If all 17 of us revolt... we wont cause too much fuss
Get rid of that garbage carb first!
Here is one idiots opinion if it works was it really the wrong way.
I have not watched the vid yet my guess you wiped out a cam
Ahhhh man I was crossing fingers n toes here
Sorry brotha
Great try