"Well my weeeknd started so in
"Well my weeeknd started so innocently... I let a friend borrow my center console w/ a suzuki 2 stroke df-140 and while he was coming close to shore he hit a submerged object. He then shut the engine down, inspected it and notice a slight ding on one of the blades. He then ran the boat back to my house and everthing seemed ok. Later that afternoon he got stranded after running the boat at around 4500 rpms for 10 minutes or so. The boat was running fine and then the RPM's went thruought roof- he shut the engine down and I towed him in to shore. I removed the prop and then ran the engine in forward and then reverse. The shaft did not turn. In addtion, it also had a hard time starting which now really concerns me as I've read in one of the earlier posts that hitting a rock, etc can damage the timing. Also in the posts someome said insurance claim which really then scared me as it seems bloody serious now. I would have thought that hitting something submerged like that would result in maybe shearing the hub or some other safety mechanism.
So my questions are the following:
1) does it seem like i have serious lower end damage? I just spent 700 on rebuilding it last fall...
2) is there another "shear pin" or something of that nature that may have failed instead of the gears?
3) this timing problem- how exactly does that happen when you hit an object and how serious is it to repair??
many thanks for your input on this matter as I am fairly new to ouboards
dave"
"Well my weeeknd started so innocently... I let a friend borrow my center console w/ a suzuki 2 stroke df-140 and while he was coming close to shore he hit a submerged object. He then shut the engine down, inspected it and notice a slight ding on one of the blades. He then ran the boat back to my house and everthing seemed ok. Later that afternoon he got stranded after running the boat at around 4500 rpms for 10 minutes or so. The boat was running fine and then the RPM's went thruought roof- he shut the engine down and I towed him in to shore. I removed the prop and then ran the engine in forward and then reverse. The shaft did not turn. In addtion, it also had a hard time starting which now really concerns me as I've read in one of the earlier posts that hitting a rock, etc can damage the timing. Also in the posts someome said insurance claim which really then scared me as it seems bloody serious now. I would have thought that hitting something submerged like that would result in maybe shearing the hub or some other safety mechanism.
So my questions are the following:
1) does it seem like i have serious lower end damage? I just spent 700 on rebuilding it last fall...
2) is there another "shear pin" or something of that nature that may have failed instead of the gears?
3) this timing problem- how exactly does that happen when you hit an object and how serious is it to repair??
many thanks for your input on this matter as I am fairly new to ouboards
dave"