Well... Here I am yet again with another update... This one, not so good hahaha. The lower unit on my miracle 1985 suzuki dt140 that has been brought back from many deaths finally flat-lined. I went out today doing some preventative maintenance stuff, fired up the engine after sitting for a...
Well were back for another year tinboaters! just went out the other day and started charging the batteries up. The weather in my part of the country is starting to warm up and I'm looking forward to getting out there and catching some sturgeon. This year I will be adding radio and hopefully some...
Had an interesting couple of weeks. Played tug boat for a family of 8 people stranded out on the river in a big fiber cabin boat, pulled them a mile or more through the current to their launch then ran out of fuel 1/2 mile from my launch and had to use the kicker to get in the last bit. Also had...
What I find a bit humerous is that the inside of the water jacket actually looks cleaner and less curroded than the exterior of the engine. The 20 years of sitting out in the open really had a heavy toll on the engine. Tho she runs pretty good for the shape shes in, she is in pretty poor...
So the preventative maintenance plan to improve the longevity of the ol suzuki went as planned... Horrible. After broken bolts and cracks and everything horrible I wound up with a broke tap in a drilled out bolt hole. End of story for that hole. With my luck gone I used all the naval engineering...
Been stressing the thermostate in the 140 suzuki lately. It appears to work fine, but it sat for 20 years and i cant afford another one so I decided better safe than sorry. So I ordered the new stat and gasket and decided to start removing the old one so I could have a while to drill out the...
Yeah this is good stuff, maybe someday ill find some money to do something like this. It would be really beneficial if I could do it right and make it look good.