Short bad afternoon at the lake

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The "boat fleet" has sat since early July--when the early hot wx and the fire smoke came along. Today I took the 15' Voyager down to the lake and here's how THAT went LOLOL

This particular ramp has no dock. I have "usually" been able to launch it and stay dry, but not recover it. I tie the bow line onto the rear of the trailer get it "mostly in," release the bow and let'er go in. Drifts out, I idle out slowly and the bow line nudges it back

I look in the mirror and it's a little further out than I expected.........the rotten bow line broke. It IS nylon. Anyhow I waded out there not quite knee deep and grabbed the line and hauled er in.

Pushed it off, got the "kicker" going and got safely away from the shore. The 40hp DID NOT want to run. The float seems to be stuck shut

Loaded it onto the trailer, which requires more wading.........and pulled out the carb main jet plug at the bottom. Well it's got fuel. So I squeezed the primer to flush it a bit, and NOW IT IS FLOODING and will not CLOSE.

Pulled 'er home and stopped beside the neighbor going the other way. He's kind o' ???? and says "I smell brakes"

Now I almost NEVER use the nearly useless parking brake on the Dakota but I decided to at the ramp and drove about 5 mi home with the brake dragging.

I'm gonna have some ice tea and watch TV

LOLOLOL
 
67Dart273 said:
The "boat fleet" has sat since early July--when the early hot wx and the fire smoke came along. Today I took the 15' Voyager down to the lake and here's how THAT went LOLOL

This particular ramp has no dock. I have "usually" been able to launch it and stay dry, but not recover it. I tie the bow line onto the rear of the trailer get it "mostly in," release the bow and let'er go in. Drifts out, I idle out slowly and the bow line nudges it back

I look in the mirror and it's a little further out than I expected.........the rotten bow line broke. It IS nylon. Anyhow I waded out there not quite knee deep and grabbed the line and hauled er in.

Pushed it off, got the "kicker" going and got safely away from the shore. The 40hp DID NOT want to run. The float seems to be stuck shut

Loaded it onto the trailer, which requires more wading.........and pulled out the carb main jet plug at the bottom. Well it's got fuel. So I squeezed the primer to flush it a bit, and NOW IT IS FLOODING and will not CLOSE.

Pulled 'er home and stopped beside the neighbor going the other way. He's kind o' ???? and says "I smell brakes"

Now I almost NEVER use the nearly useless parking brake on the Dakota but I decided to at the ramp and drove about 5 mi home with the brake dragging.

I'm gonna have some ice tea and watch TV

LOLOLOL
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Oh well. This day too shall pass. lol
 
LOL Took a long nap. I was not scheduled to be "quite that long." Tomorrow is supposed to be the last nice day, last warm day, "for awhile" but it might be a bit windy. If I can get the carb looked at in time, I'll try it again. Carbs are a PITA to get off those you pretty much have to pull the starter first and it's a lot easier to pull the recoil and flywheel as well
 
67Dart273 said:
LOL Took a long nap. I was not scheduled to be "quite that long." Tomorrow is supposed to be the last nice day, last warm day, "for awhile" but it might be a bit windy. If I can get the carb looked at in time, I'll try it again. Carbs are a PITA to get off those you pretty much have to pull the starter first and it's a lot easier to pull the recoil and flywheel as well
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Well good luck! I hope you get it going!
 
I will, "eventually." We are running "out of weather" up here. Next week predicted to be rainy some and a high of only 60 ish for a few days. I don't there will be many more 75-80 days from here out
 
Today is not going much better. I did not remove the carb, just flushed a bunch through it with the primer after flooding it with parts cleaner. That carb SHOULD be clean.

BUT NOW it only has spark on one hole. The points are good, the condenser seems so. I'm just now sitting down to lunch. The mag is off, I'm going to go downstairs and run it through "the tests." I'm thinkin the China coil is junk

I'ts 1:10PM and time is running short. Wx is starting to go downhill, it's supposed to get breezy, cooler, rain tonight or tomorrow and coldish/ rainish next few days. From here on out boating days will be sporadic
 
Don’t leave us up in the air Del, did you get that 40 going? How was today? Did you make it back to the lake before the weather turned?
 
Roadcuda said:
Is there a guy named Murphy standing around watching this?:lol:
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Yeh I know. It's 10AM and barely 50F here, looks like it could rain anytime. Looks like Thu-Fri is going to clear up and warm up into the high 60's--low 70's If I get this "looking better" I'll shoot for a ride then.
 
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