Prop for 115 2S on SF 20

[muddywater]

Great stories Frank!! My first boat was a pirogue when I was 5 or 6. You would have smoked me

I might be needing my prop sooner than I thought. I replaced the crumbley wiring and the stator (since the wiring was completely gone on it). I rigged up a new ignition and refilled and bled the trim/tilt which was bone dry. We took the boat to the ramp today. It was it's first time in the water in 17 years. The motor had not been started in 17 years and it is a 27 year old motor. Keep in mind that I did not rebuild the fuel pump or carbs or anything else except wiring and splicing some new stuff onto the idle stabilizer. I did take the advice of some people on THT and sprayed Marvel Mystery oil in the cylinders and stuck some new plugs in it. It started in under half a minute. Another guy who was bringing in his boat came over to look and we noticed that it had a couple dry-rotted internal gas lines broken in half squirting gas all over the place but the motor was running even with the broken lines!!!! It probably would have been easier to start but every time I would pump the bulb on the gas line, the gas would just squirt out one of the broken hoses (which is a really bad thing if you are on the water and trying not to kill fish). Sooo, I will need new gas lines before I do anything else to it. I would not have gotten very far anyway though. The starboard deck drain through-hull has a severe leak and would have sunk the old girl after an hour or so especially since there was no bilge pump. When I got the boat, there was enough mulch in the bilge to plant a garden. You could not even see the bilge pump.

-Muddy