Posted By: wal1809
time for an update - 10/07/21 05:33 PM
Been a while since I was able to post an update. The day before the hurricane we were on the island adding the porches. It made more sense to me to do the porches now so we won't have to build scaffolding now and porches later. So we have no access to fresh water yet. We just pour dry concrete in the hole and let nature take over. Well 20 hours later a monsoon rain from the hurricane did the trick. We braced off the vertical porch posts so all was well when I went out Wednesday.
I finally got my fill of the 35 year old 140 hp Evenrude. I am not sure if yall know this, but finding a new or used boat motor is as rare as chickens teeth right now. I looked for a month and finally found a Etec 115 hp with only 248 hours on it. I jumped on that like a frog on a fly. Contrary to my nature I even told them to do the engine swap. It should be ready tomorrow. I can't wait!!! Moving forward is a must. I promised myself I would get that motor running and I did. I am a super tenacious person. If I set out to do something, the world will end if I don't finish, OR give it 1000% effort. Well I did get it running and I finally found the problem. It was a split in the wire harness. That is an extremely difficult problem to diagnose and find. The only way to find it with electronic diagnostics is to recreate the problem when diagnostics were hooked up. Even though i found and fixed the problem, the damage had already been done. I have to know that boat will get to the island and more important, come home. I was developing anxiety that I don't need. Thinking that boat was going to fail the whole way on a 2 hour drive to the coast. I told myself I was going to fix it and i did, so Off you go old motor, wirer harness and controls. Out with the old and in with the new!
The wood in the pic are old cedar fence pickets. I took the crossmembers off, cut the top and bottom off of the pickets, ran them through a planer and stained them. This wood is for the hallway and the bathroom. We will be duck hunting out of this place for the 2022 season, as in not this season but next.
I finally got my fill of the 35 year old 140 hp Evenrude. I am not sure if yall know this, but finding a new or used boat motor is as rare as chickens teeth right now. I looked for a month and finally found a Etec 115 hp with only 248 hours on it. I jumped on that like a frog on a fly. Contrary to my nature I even told them to do the engine swap. It should be ready tomorrow. I can't wait!!! Moving forward is a must. I promised myself I would get that motor running and I did. I am a super tenacious person. If I set out to do something, the world will end if I don't finish, OR give it 1000% effort. Well I did get it running and I finally found the problem. It was a split in the wire harness. That is an extremely difficult problem to diagnose and find. The only way to find it with electronic diagnostics is to recreate the problem when diagnostics were hooked up. Even though i found and fixed the problem, the damage had already been done. I have to know that boat will get to the island and more important, come home. I was developing anxiety that I don't need. Thinking that boat was going to fail the whole way on a 2 hour drive to the coast. I told myself I was going to fix it and i did, so Off you go old motor, wirer harness and controls. Out with the old and in with the new!
The wood in the pic are old cedar fence pickets. I took the crossmembers off, cut the top and bottom off of the pickets, ran them through a planer and stained them. This wood is for the hallway and the bathroom. We will be duck hunting out of this place for the 2022 season, as in not this season but next.