Rob

Welcome, See you on the 16th, BTW it is the night after the club Xmas do so members will either be wearing club clothing or have blootshot eyes, or both!!!! Rob

Lets hope so but I'm not sure the team deserve to get through with such poor performances!

Welcome Steve, I have only been a member this year and the benefits are superb. I have gained more knowledge in the last 9 months about boat fishing than I did for the 3 years I had a boat and didn't join the club! Also, you will make some good friends with similar interests. The next meeting is this Thursday so pop along. Rob

You can still fish it on the 16th, assuming the weather is better!!!!! Rob

These guys are BRILLIANT:

Hey guys, My crew member for Sunday has had to back out of the Open Comp. If anyone would like to join me on JoJo for the day please advise. Rob

Paul, I quote from the bottle "Mix 3 caps =(15ml) Salt-x per 1 litre of water in a clean container that your motor or lower unit will fit into. Make sure to COMPLETELY SUBMERGE the water intake. Run engine on fats idle until water begins to exit exhaust port. Then run for 15 seconds and shut off" Therefore I assumed that Salt-X should not be circulated for an extended period via the impellor via the engine running. The only way to see if you have a build up is remove the thermostat, on mine it is a 1 minute job. Rob

Paul, I think it says that on the bottle. On the US website it says: "using our AUTO-MIX UNIT. Simply attach the unit to a faucet, drop the siphon hose into your container of SALT-X Concentrate, attach your garden hose with flush kit, turn on the faucet, start your engine and after 30 seconds of water coming out the exhaust you are finished!! " I will check the instructions on the bottle and get back to you. Rob

Wow - sounds like a great day. Next time don't let your crew catch all the cod!! Any pics? Rob

I read this earlier today and was disapointed that it only fetched

I would take the thermostat out and leave it out and just use the hose flush adapter. I guess all that would happen is the engine would take a little longer to warm up. Rob

You should be able to use your muffs at tilt I guess. Also, the salt-x bottle says you can mix it with sea water to rinse your engine, but not to run the engine for more than 15 seconds I think. Never used it for that but it sounds good. Rob

Rich, My Yam is a 50 of 2003 vintage, it has done 95 hours. I always flush with muffs so the engine gets to temperature and the thermostat opens. I can only assume that the previous owner didn't use muffs but the hose attachment which doesnt flush behind the stat (there was a post on here regarding this prob earlier this year ).http://www.pbsbac.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=6241 Don't use the hose connection, use muffs or a bucket of water. Rob p.s. I trailer.

Fine, as long as it is not attached to Star Turn, One boat in the drive is enough!!!!

Thanks for the info on the syringe I will keep that in mind for next year. Nice to see you out on Sat (that was me going out through the bridge as you returned, I also use the RNLI). Rob

On second thoughts Gordon, On my VHF I think Hi and Low power is a control on the transmission not receiving of traffic. To have less reception the senseativity of the reciever would change, I guess, the specs on mine only suggest one level of senseativity. Though I could be completely wrong! Rob

Don't do it! I did, learn by my mistake!!!

Gordon, How about testinging with a hand held VHF? Obviously, that is not allowed on land so don't give y out your postcode!! If you want to borrow mine your more than welcome. Rob

Spark plugs were next and the main problem was getting the out, they were somewhere between the small and big sparkplug sockets for cars! So off to Halfords to get a deep 18mm socket, of course they only stock 17 and 19 deep so no good to me. Luckly a friend was able to loan me one so the job was easy. Last but not least, gearbox and engine oil. Engine oil, easy. Gearbox, what a pain. I had to syphon it in and with the cold weather this was slow and painful. I made a connector for the tubing by drilling out a length of M8 bar, popping this in the fill and breather hole for the gearbox and used a funnel. And waited and waited and waited. Eventually with some warmth from a hot air gun we got some movement (next time put gearbox and oil in the house for 24hrs before filling!). All in all it went well, I took her out to Swanage bay on saturday and she went like a dream, all I have left are a few nipples left to grease! SALT-X Rules!!!!!!

The impellor was also changed. The old one had lost most of its rubbery-ness and the water tell-tale jet with the new one is noticeble more powerful.

After 6 days of Salt-X solution the cooling paths seemed to have cleared some what as you can see below:

I ended running the pump from a 12v power supply as the jumpstarted pack only runs for 8 hours.

I also had to try and de-crust \ de-salt the cooling of the out board. Only having 100mls of Salt-X I could not mix up enough solution to put the leg of the motor in a large bucket. So off with the gearbox and improvise. I hooked up my baitwell pump to the impellor inlet on what was left of the leg of the motor, and circulated 5 litres of solution through the engine. This was reaching hopefully all areas of the cooling system as I have left the thermostat out. The pumped solution was the collected back in the bucket to flow again and again and again. I left the 5 litres circulating for 48 hours and changed it twice more (Thanks PJ for the loan of more Salt-X as I had used all mine, in the mean time I got on the web asap and ordered the litre bottle!).

This was the amazing result after 24hours, Amazing!

Decided that it was time to service my outboard. I purchased a service kit from Warsash Marine via their Ebay shop. They were very helpful and supplied exactly what was needed after a quick chat over email. I purchased a copy of sthe Yamaha service manuals from Ebay for