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This is embarrassing but I have to share...
Its a long-ish story, but until a few weeks ago, I've had my boat in storage for roughly 24 months. She was not being used and she was up for sale...http://www.planetnautique.com/vb5/fo...=1471886093631
But as it turns out, we are keeping her. So I pulled her out of storage and got her all ready to take out. Prepping the boat went perfectly. I ran her up and everything looked great, oil pressure and temp were right on target. When we got her to the lake for the first outing, I knew not to go far from the dock area, just in case. As we were tooling around, I kept my eye on the gauges. The temp gauge was reading erratically. Going from 160 to 175...but it wouldn't go over 175. So We started pulling the tube and I noticed that the temp gauge stayed around 175 and the "exhaust" water was steamy. But it was a strange, slightly cooler but humid, rainy type day so I figured that was pronouncing the steam from the water coming out of the engine. So after one stop, I started it back up and it was showing 200 degrees. I started moving, to see if it would cool down. It didn't so right about the time the engine did its power cut, I throttled down and killed it. We just hung out and I checked the impeller and it was fine. When it cooled down to around 150, I restarted and headed to the dock. Temp climbed to 175 but not over that.
So, like I said, I ran it up at home before the trip. I do this by running the water through the garden hose to the intake hose after unhooking the intake hose from the strainer. It ran perfectly cool. So I knew it was something between raw water intake and the strainer. I thought maybe some critter crawled into the intake and made a home in my line...
So some of you may already know where I'm going and what happened...LOL
When we got back to the resort, as I was unscrewing my strainer cap, I looked down and noticed my intake water valve was turned to OFF! DOOOOOOH!!!
I NEVER turn that valve to off. But I had forgotten that I did it out of an abundance of caution when I knew it would be in storage for a while. So yeah I forgot I turned it off after 2 years. So I'm gonna give myself a bit of a pass. LOL!!
Im just glad it must not completely shut the water off because I checked the strainer while we were on the water, Strainer had water but it did have some air bubbles in there. I guess I would have found out a lot quicker if the water was completely restricted.
Im never doing that again.
Boat ran great and stayed cool at 160 degrees from then on....
LOL!!!!
Its a long-ish story, but until a few weeks ago, I've had my boat in storage for roughly 24 months. She was not being used and she was up for sale...http://www.planetnautique.com/vb5/fo...=1471886093631
But as it turns out, we are keeping her. So I pulled her out of storage and got her all ready to take out. Prepping the boat went perfectly. I ran her up and everything looked great, oil pressure and temp were right on target. When we got her to the lake for the first outing, I knew not to go far from the dock area, just in case. As we were tooling around, I kept my eye on the gauges. The temp gauge was reading erratically. Going from 160 to 175...but it wouldn't go over 175. So We started pulling the tube and I noticed that the temp gauge stayed around 175 and the "exhaust" water was steamy. But it was a strange, slightly cooler but humid, rainy type day so I figured that was pronouncing the steam from the water coming out of the engine. So after one stop, I started it back up and it was showing 200 degrees. I started moving, to see if it would cool down. It didn't so right about the time the engine did its power cut, I throttled down and killed it. We just hung out and I checked the impeller and it was fine. When it cooled down to around 150, I restarted and headed to the dock. Temp climbed to 175 but not over that.
So, like I said, I ran it up at home before the trip. I do this by running the water through the garden hose to the intake hose after unhooking the intake hose from the strainer. It ran perfectly cool. So I knew it was something between raw water intake and the strainer. I thought maybe some critter crawled into the intake and made a home in my line...
So some of you may already know where I'm going and what happened...LOL
When we got back to the resort, as I was unscrewing my strainer cap, I looked down and noticed my intake water valve was turned to OFF! DOOOOOOH!!!
I NEVER turn that valve to off. But I had forgotten that I did it out of an abundance of caution when I knew it would be in storage for a while. So yeah I forgot I turned it off after 2 years. So I'm gonna give myself a bit of a pass. LOL!!
Im just glad it must not completely shut the water off because I checked the strainer while we were on the water, Strainer had water but it did have some air bubbles in there. I guess I would have found out a lot quicker if the water was completely restricted.
Im never doing that again.
Boat ran great and stayed cool at 160 degrees from then on....
LOL!!!!
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