Whats the 1st thing to do when you work on your boat motor?

[phatdaddy]

well, hope you guys are happy. Ya ll jinxed me. Alternator went out on my merc. Had to put a new one on. First one lasted 444 hours, this one lasted 434 hours. See a pattern here.

Anyway, i needed my 10mm ignition type wrench to hold the post nut while i tightened ring terminal down. Nowhere to be found. Ended up grinding down my 10mm open end so i can promptly loose it now.

Side note. I took the bad one to local alt shop. He said they could rebuild, but would be next week before it s ready. Got plans for the Fourth, so I went to local Merc Dealer and bought a new one. Told the Alt shop to go ahead and rebuild and in 444 hours, I m ready.

Whole point of story is in four years, I ll be looking everywhere for my spare alt.

If you guys remind me I have one.