Im lost without the PW thread!!!!

[Iwndr]

Dr, did you take the family to PF Changs or was it fast food?

no we went to the Texas Roadhouse in Cheyenne

[Iwndr]

Glad to hear it was just a tick, sucks that it was in the ear canal, bugs in my ears have freaked me out since StarTrek.

funny

[skippabcool]

ho and go

I am out

Hope everyone will have a great Sunday

[Iwndr]

So with all you over achievers c/o your impellers I figured I'd get one on Friday, so I called the dealer to see if they had one. The parts guy and mechanics were gone for the day ?????? It was only 3:00 and is this not a busy time of the year for boat shops??????

Any way I guess i'll change it out next week if I can find one

[Iwndr]

Night Skippa, there were all kinds of soccer games going on in Ft Collins today

[dingleberry]

post - got the battery charger installed today

[Fiveflat]

So with all you over achievers c/o your impellers I figured I'd get one on Friday, so I called the dealer to see if they had one. The parts guy and mechanics were gone for the day ?????? It was only 3:00 and is this not a busy time of the year for boat shops??????

Any way I guess i'll change it out next week if I can find one

Last week my brother helped me replace mine. He's one that always says to do it every year before your first trip.
So the next day we go out and he said that he'll change his the next weekend.


LOL Guess who's blew to bits...

[Fiveflat]

post - got the battery charger installed today

Joo got pictures?

[dingleberry]

so check this out -

I've always thought that the way the batteries were arranged in my boat was crappy. They were crammed in the space crooked, the lids couldn't fit down properly on the battery boxes, and the shelf they were on was not level. So, I found something interesting when I pulled them to install the charger leads.

Do you see the odd carpeted thing in the back right corner? A red cable comes out from behind it...



I noticed that that thing was preventing the cranking batt from being straight in there. I tried to figure out what it was - a chase for cabling or something? Nope. It didn't do anything, and didn't go anywhere. I was stumped. Then I realized that it moved. But it was a heavy SOB. And its weight had caused the starboard battery shelf to bend down into the corner, thus the unlevel shelf.

[dingleberry]

So I haul that heavy beotch out...

98 pounds of carpeted lead.

Placed there either by the factory or by the dealer during delivery prep.

[dingleberry]

I can only assume that it was placed to try to even out the wake. But placing it where they did really effed up my battery shelf.

[dingleberry]

So, I did not place the lead back in the same spot. This allowed me to straighten the batteries and also to have enough room to place the battery charger on the back of the battery access panel.

(but the battery shelf is still out-of-level)

Oh - for now, I just put the lead in the bottom corner of the locker.

[dingleberry]

Last week my brother helped me replace mine. He's one that always says to do it every year before your first trip.
So the next day we go out and he said that he'll change his the next weekend.


LOL Guess who's blew to bits...

Sucks for him.

Glad that yours is all good now, though

[dingleberry]

And some bummer pics...

This spring I noticed a bit of gelcoat cracking around the little transom lockers.

[Fiveflat]

Sucks for him.

Glad that yours is all good now, though

Oh no, it sucked for me too... ended up with 12 in my boat that afternoon.

And some bummer pics...

That's incredible. how does that really happen on an '09 boat???