What a day!

[bradford]

Originally Posted by RidgeRunner

Damn, I know that smell. The little rat bastids got into the flats boat a while back. Chewed some non-vital wiring but chewed a hole or three in the stowed away bimini. Those f-ers had to die.. Rat turds a-plenty. Earlier that day one of my ex-employees managed to toast the stock engine in my 1989 GMC Sierra. I lent him the truck out of the kindness of my heart. So he re-paid me in kind. The official story, He was just cruising around when all of the sudden it threw a rod, broke the cam in three and chunked the rear cam journal out the back of the block and into the flex plate wiping out the transmission too. I was at the end of my rope. Refusing to be whipped, I overcame with a few thousand more of the$e..and a friend who lent me his truck so I could get the flats boat to the boat wash facility. LOL Lemonade anyone? BTW- On teardown, the SBC had broken a hydraulic lifter, at 6000 rpm no doubt. Starved the back of the block for oil, spun a bearing and voila destroyed in seconds. I never believed his BS story and he was subsequently fired. Best move I ever made.

I think a jury of your PEERS would find you justified for murdering him.

[smokeonthewater]

AUG 8
Whew... spent ALL day today washing.... after cleaning every possible bit out I would fill it to the top and drain it and end up with more nest material bits of foam and feces... was just about to start cutting the flotation foam out when I discovered channels outside the footwells that were only accessible by shoving the hose over the foam and then motherloads of nastiness came washing out at the very back of the ski... I mean HUGE amounts! Those little buggers had a regular mouse city in there.....

Now after hours of flushing those channels and filling n dumping the ski I FINALLY have it all out... I'm gonna let it sit over night and if I can't smell anything tomorrow I'll start the transplant... If there is still any odor it will get filled to the top one last time and I'll run up to the pool supply store for some granulated chlorine shock treatment for a final cleansing.

AUG 9
Bought a swimming pool shock treatment .. supposed to super chlorinate 10,000 gal and used the whole thing in the ski.......

AUG 11
Well making progress... I dropped the engine in last night and hooked up all the wiring... I got the power trim working after taking the motor apart, cleaning it up, re-gluing the magnets, and bypassing a thermal resistor with a solder bridge...... It seems that my fresh rebuilt starter is likely full of water as it has developed "issues" so I'll pull it and take it apart again......


AUG 12
Had to unplug the trim limit switch too as it wasn't allowing me to trim up... Just have to make sure I (or more likely other people) don't burn up the trim motor holding the button too long.

Fixed starter and got her all together and fired up last night..... Heading out to register this afternoon.