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Ky Grady

Ky Grady

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Finally some shop time for my own boat. The shop is closed till after the New Year so I have some time to do some odds and ends to my own boat. Port wiper motor is out and wiper arm is corroded onto the spindle, pulling fuel injectors and sending them off to be checked and cleaned, flush and bleed hydraulic steering. Figured I'd do all this now instead of waiting till spring.
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Fishtales said:
Nice set up. Wish I had something like that!
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Wish it was mine. It's where I work during the week. Most all my tools are here. Got all customer boats out before the holidays, conveniently left the shop open. :cool:
 
Well, it's yours for a few weeks... Get cracking.
 
Fishtales said:
Well, it's yours for a few weeks... Get cracking.
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Exactly,,,, injectors are out, wiper motor out, flush and bleed steering, next week.

Have a few small projects to do as well, but those are the biggies.
 
It's nice to have that wide-open space available! We just finished up our last winterization and late-Fall work, too. We had an odder-than-usual winterization schedule this Fall with 8 boats showing up with cracked blocks (stern drives) because the customers didn't at least drain, or get their boats to us soon enough. The craziest one... Customer calls and isn't sure if he can get it to us before a big freeze. No problem, we explain how to drain the engine and even email directions to him. He says "Thanks, that's perfect - I can do that". He brings the boat in after a long cold spell... yup... block and manifold is cracked. When we asked him what happened, his response was, and I quote, "Ah, it was too cold outside to get out there and drain it". I had no idea how to respond to that logic.
 
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DennisG01 said:
It's nice to have that wide-open space available! We just finished up our last winterization and late-Fall work, too. We had an odder-than-usual winterization schedule this Fall with 8 boats showing up with cracked blocks (stern drives) because the customers didn't at least drain, or get their boats to us soon enough. The craziest one... Customer calls and isn't sure if he can get it to us before a big freeze. No problem, we explain how to drain the engine and even email directions to him. He says "Thanks, that's perfect - I can do that". He brings the boat in after a long cold spell... yup... block and manifold is cracked. When we asked him what happened, his response was, and I quote, "Ah, it was too cold outside to get out there and drain it". I had no idea how to respond to that logic.
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I hear it all the time. Best one I had this year was he removed the blue wing nut drain on top in the thermostat housing and shop vacuumed the water out,,, uh,,,,,ok, did you run any antifreeze through the motor? No, I just used a funnel and topped it off with antifreeze through the same drain hole I shop vacked through. Alrighty then!!!

Needless to say, we went outside before the temps dropped and opened all the block and manifold drains and drained the water and a teacup full of antifreeze out and winterized it correctly. Some folks have no business owning a boat.
 
Ky Grady said:
I hear it all the time. Best one I had this year was he removed the blue wing nut drain on top in the thermostat housing and shop vacuumed the water out,,, uh,,,,,ok, did you run any antifreeze through the motor? No, I just used a funnel and topped it off with antifreeze through the same drain hole I shop vacked through. Alrighty then!!!

Needless to say, we went outside before the temps dropped and opened all the block and manifold drains and drained the water and a teacup full of antifreeze out and winterized it correctly. Some folks have no business owning a boat.
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That's another one where you don't even know how to respond to that logic (or lack there of). BUT, he probably learned of that method through Youtube or some guy on some forum (who said those famous words "It's always worked for me")... which of course means it MUST be true! Crazy.

Years ago, we started writing directly on the work order "Dropped off after the first freeze", which the customer then signs. Then we immediately drain everything (which we always did prior to that new practice, anyways). You can probably guess why we had to adopt that new practice.
 
DennisG01 said:
That's another one where you don't even know how to respond to that logic (or lack there of). BUT, he probably learned of that method through Youtube or some guy on some forum (who said those famous words "It's always worked for me")... which of course means it MUST be true! Crazy.

Years ago, we started writing directly on the work order "Dropped off after the first freeze", which the customer then signs. Then we immediately drain everything (which we always did prior to that new practice, anyways). You can probably guess why we had to adopt that new practice.
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Yep, understand completely. If we're backed up and can't get the winterize done the same day it arrives, we'll go out and pull the drains and at least get the water out.
Ha,,,another good one we get is after a week or two of freezing temperatures we'll get a random boat show up to be winterized. Ask owner has it been stored inside during the cold temps, "Yup, been in my barn inside". Sir, is your barn heated? No,,,well,,you most likely have cracked the block or manifolds,,,sure enough cracked when we check it out.
 
you hopefully learn that hard lesson once....
 
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