Recent content by Chris Crownover

Smells like a burnt tire a bit though

It s it started! Watching the temp gage now to see if it starts getting too hot

What would pulling the spark plugs and trying again do?

Maybe but I don’t know how that would happen or how I would definitively tell?

It cranks but it makes a loud sound like something is locked up. Everything turns smoothly by hand…the water pump one is harder to turn but the same as the starboard which is working fine. I can’t turn the main shaft on either engine but I don’t think your supposed to be able to. Without the...

We’ll belt is changed out but now it won’t start

Yeah I sanded and painted the pulleys and yes all the dust is the belt grinding as the motor kept going once the belt broke for a bit. Replacing the belt today and cleanup :) hopefully everything else is ok. It got up to 230 deg

What is the alarm that you get?

On Labor Day (coming back from San Juan Islands) I got an engine temp alarm on my Port Engine but both temperature readings on my smartcraft were around 180 which is nominal at 3400 RPM. I slowed down and the alarm went away, I then drove at 3400 RPM for about 3 hours before the temperature...

Hello, did you ever figure it out? Both of mine are broken on Searay 340 and not sure what to do with rivets either?

I disassembled it further down where the fuel line connects, this is def the way to do it

There isn’t clearance to do that, but the tightening sequence is definitely important for this

Yeah I can do the pump side on the bench but when I go to thread it into the other elbow fitting I’d be screwing it out

And then neither one of them is tight but put sealant