Hey guys how's it going we're going to continue on the bass tracker fishing boat that i grabbed a couple of weeks ago. Last two videos. First, one was getting all the critters and everything out of it. The video before this one.

We got it running and now it's been sitting for i don't know four or five days, so i figure before i move it out and get rid of that barrel and get into doing the water pump and all we'll do a cold start see how it fires Up when it's cold, it's having a little bit of issue in the last couple videos i see if she does give a couple clicks of the choke you live with that. Sometimes you just got to figure out what the pattern is to fire that stuff up. As you can get her out of the water freedom, i got a bunch of lube and a pump that ain't makings of a good party. I don't know what is, let's see what we get for goo coming out of it.

Hopefully, it's just all gear oil and no water. The screw looks like it's a little on the chopped upside there clean that up with a file. So there's the drain is actually the fill on these. It's really clear, so there's another screw up a little higher, just jump there somewhere right there and that's more of a vent.

You don't fill it through there. You would think that you would, but what happens is if you try to fill it through the top inside. Here's a bunch of gears and little passageways it'll get air pockets and you won't get it filled up correctly. Now it's flowing and you have a chance of it just being low on fluid after you, fire it up and the air pockets go away.

So if you put the tubes in you fill it up from the bottom side, it fills in any nook and cranny fills in any nook and cranny as it's going up so yeah. It's definitely a need for a change. I don't see much water in it, though. We'll let it run out and see what we get then we got to get this little unit off of here looks like we got bolts there, there's just like four or five there's one up top there and we'll drop that whole lower unit.

I wonder if we should take the prop off first or not worried about dmg. I don't know. If there's i don't think we need to get behind there. I think it's just sitting up in its own little canister right about.

I think right about here right about here: let's bring her up a little bit, got the oil to go to that back corner. Well, that was draining out the power tilt or trim goes up no problem, but on the way down it keeps uh failing. I think the relays are under here: let's get this cover popped off and give a quick look and see if i can find one local looks like it's all: what's all the state unit, let's go peek around just double check, but i may leave that alone. If that's what's controlling it, let me just leave that be for a bit probably trace the wires and see where they go.

But or you know we could do. We just hit the button up and down and put our hand on it and see if it clicks. Like a plan, all right, that's a plan. Let me uh move you to a different location, that's not our puppy somewhere else.

That's a starter relay would be the same and that's going to be starter for the starter right. Let's follow that yeah! That's just going right to the starters. It's gon na should look something like that, though, where are they that little guy? That's right, choke solenoid, that's kind of tiny for see it. I don't see it so.

Power with these comes in goes up and they're right here. You're looking right at them, so let's go see which one's the down one yeah, this one that's our victim, so we get a test light just put a test light on it, real quick make sure it's doing what it's supposed to be doing. I wonder we should be live all the time here. That's our power coming in that's gon na be power going out, scopekeeper yeah, it's definitely the relay.

I don't really think we could take apart and clean anything that kind of internal. So i'm going to go see the next couple days i'll go chase one of those down, i'm not sure if it's just going to be like a regular ford set up over something fancy that we got to go chase actually doesn't look like it's that bad to Change when the boat's in the water and either swap them, i think we're done with the drips, throw that back in there for now just to keep it from getting messy on us and then we'll. We have to be able to you're going to have to move your face. We have to be able to get enough room.

We got to tilt this back up so that the driveshaft can clear the housing - it's probably about 14 inches up there. Let's see we got for gunk and nothing happy. This stuff has got kind of a dark color to it anyway, this gear oils got that same kind of look, and i did speak with ken and on the gas tank of those watching on the other video. When i got all the crappy fuel out of the tank and had that kind of blue tint to it, he did not put any premix in it.

He was using the automatic oiler. So whatever happened to that fuel that was in there happened to that fuel. That was in there from sitting, and my guess is it's an algae that grew. It looked.

The gas looked like this. Just a little thinner, no chunks stinking mud, wasps, making a little nest uh. I think i could only get these halfway. You got to drop the lower unit down a little further and then you get the nut the rest of the way off.

You can see the air gap. That's on top there's not much room to work with. So we'll run these two so pretty much. What i can get and i'll crack the i think this is the last one on the back side right here, and we get this last two out and pull her out.

I'm not sure if we have to pull that off. I see an access hole down inside there, but i thought it was just bolted to the lower section. Let's go take that out of there see if it'll fix our woes, so i don't think it's the one that went down. I think it's the one that went up there's the one hidden right there.

You were starting ready to hit it with a hammer weren't you i heard you, we could look it up online, but that'd be way too easy kind of sport. Is it in that? It's like using a fish finder to go fishing cheating, oh fishing, guys are yelling at me right now, all right, let's see if that did, of course there we go all right now. I can get these other two undone, the rest of the way somebody's got to get removed. Hopefully that's just a vacuum: nose, where's, the gown.

Now what hold on looks like there's a split. Now we got it there we go. Let's go see what's up the hole, that's exhaust coming out up there on the water feed going up, drive shaft! Oh you see up inside that one and that's the shifter believe, and this thing we got that should be forward in reverse: here's our water pump. This is the drive shaft going down through it also, which also runs the pump and goes down into the gears we put it back together, we're going to have some fun, just trying all the stuff to go line up.

Let's get this over on the other bench a little bit of room to work, we'll flip it up, maybe stick in the vise and start getting that pump apart and see what we got. Can we just try that one? What gives because they're, two different sizes? What's up with that, don't don't fall into some place. I can't get you back at it. Pump pump should come out of that cover now.

Off of that said, that's where the pump is and what happens over time. It's offset to one side, it's a little bit better right now, but it's probably held to one side and it bends those little legs over and eventually they get brittle and they break off. These actually look pretty good. It was pumping still fairly decent too, and people were talking about turning it backwards.

Yeah you got to watch, see how it's all folded over to one direction. You turn it backwards. They want to flip the opposite direction and when that happens, it breaks off. Hopefully it was catching that did you even see, so they look pretty good.

Let's go see if our our new stuff matches our old stuff all kinds of goodies. Let's see if that looks like that, let's see we're pretty close, it's a little tractor wheel. Isn't it no gaskets, it's a pillow tube, don't know where they go. That'll take some stuff apart and see what it looks like and put in reassemble as needed.

This is where it draws the water up through and it wears on that plate. There's where that goes. So that is the drive for the impeller, and what do we got? Gasket metal plate? Another gasket. I don't think we really need to go dig any further than that, not sure where those o-rings go.

Maybe some of them go on the shifter broke. That one hope. The new one fits i got some clean up to do is this whole assembly come out of here. I think we should leave well enough alone.

I think she would leave well enough alone looks like the silicone between the exhaust port, where the pump comes in. I'm guessing the rest of this is gasket gasket, it's real. It's got kind of like a plastic feel to it, probably just the paint that's on top. I don't know if we're supposed to put anything there, but we'll definitely put something across there.

I'll take a look at the bottom end of the motor we'll see if there's anything on there for any kind of sealant. I feel we just put a bridge across there and maybe we just butter back up. Let's go put our bits and pieces on that. One! A little thrust plate goes that backwards nope, and then we get that new little key and open some packages.

That's gon na sit it's going to sit right there, the same on both sides looks it doesn't i'll see difference with the ridge yeah. I think it's this heavy the way yeah, that's locked in and now we got ta go, have the fun of trying to wiggle the housing back on, but we're gon na go. Give that a quick visual too, as we replace this tube, see if there's any o-rings or if there's an o-ring or something right up in here, don't look too bad. Remember how that was.

That was like that. So we got to make sure that we turn so that the fins drop in the right direction. Hope that's the way it was. Let's see what this has well there's another bushing down below rubbery supposed to come out, though it does not look like it matches the one.

That's in the box there looking at that one yeah that does not line up to anything. We have what, if that goes in between yeah, we got nothing that lines up to that, so that it's going back in all right. I guess it's going like that. Let's go see if you can get that out of there we'll get some lithium grease, probably put it on the little fins.

There give him a little bit of lube and try to get this thing on there. I actually think we're gon na be better off. Maybe if we start it halfway on the pump and then try to go and put it down as long as we line up the keyway to roughly actually just rotate the shaft wherever it needs right, because this is shorter than the bolts. So the bolts are already going to be locked in before we're not going to be able to twist it to do what we want.

Quite you know shove it with our fingers and try to knock these over to start collapsing, but maybe that'll be our best bet. So i'm going to start it in here we'll spray it down. Some lithium grease, like i said, and get her to go. We're gon na want that to go come on everybody in the pool, i think maybe a little further.

Even i'm gon na leave it about that much exposed just get a little bit more, a little whipped cream on that puppy. I got it set about there for the where the groove is. Let's see if we can get that fed on should also say that that pump is offset that hole is not directly in the center. That's how the pump works.

It's not like it's um, just spinning in a circle. It's spinning in an offset circle, so those cavities get larger and smaller as the pump spins around yeah get in your hole start. I say i think i need to turn it while i push it in, i get it. I think so.

Yeah get my finger out of there, hopefully all right, let's just which way we're supposed to turn it. I forgot already we're supposed to turn it that way. I can't turn it. My hands are too greasy that was some scotch brite to hold.

It fill it with dirt. There we go now we're in good turns that's a good sign, the right stuff, so it says that going across. I should do it, so i don't see any gaskets or anything i cleaned it off. So that's exhaust port.

This is where the water is going to go up and then right next to that, let's go, let's go pointy right next. To that way, up in there is where the driveshaft has to get connected into actually placing the upper one driveshaft has to get locked into a spline, and then our shifter has to get locked into a spline, and we have to fill that fill. We have to feed that little black hose up through. I forget where it popped out somewhere up there.

I'm not sure if this is just grease. That was on the bolts right there, or they were trying to use it to seal off this cavity, where the shift fork is okay, that's probably the only way i can see water not going into where all these shouldn't matter. All this can get wet. That's not going to make any difference as far as that's concerned, but this one possibly should not have it.

So i'm wondering if um, i don't know if i want to play sealer around there. I was thinking. Maybe we'll just do a thick layer of grease and have that in between. I don't think, there's any pressure.

You know it's not pressurizing getting there and again what about the hose like does the hose seal to the outside of that? How does that stop from leaking? Might be overthinking it, i don't think i've ever run the grease gun, not making fart noises just saying i have no idea if that is doing anything, we're gon na make a little grease barrier just in case. Oh, that area i put the grease around just so it wouldn't have any kind of leaks. Well, it's open to the outside where the hose goes through. I guess that gets all wet in there.

It doesn't really matter so much it's time to wrestle, get in the right hole to start with that, let's go in front of the shifter all right pop out the top one of you would grab that deeply appreciate. It turn the corner. So so, okay, i guess the water pickup, that's fighting me spot lined up yeah, i damaged it. I'm gon na go with the other one put it back on.

That's what was binding on me, not lining up to the center that worked better. There's my hose sticking out down the town without your host sticking out, can we get a nut on something i got ta get the shifter in place. Gon na fight me every inch of the way, let's bump the key for a second and slid right up now we get our hardware on. This is a sacrificial lamb that goes on the back and essentially in the water, especially, i think these salt water is more than fresh water, the corrosion that happens.

It's like a kind of like when you have dissimilar metals. They do the same thing to make a corrosion. It starts eating away at it. Well, this is supposed to be the sacrificial lamb that gets chewed up and eventually replaced if it gets rotted away, they put them on the holes too.

This uh, this doesn't look like it's long for this world. Apparently i'm gon na be gingerly tightening that down, but i may have to go grab another one of those because she's uh cracking up pretty good. If one day i bring up the motor i get it. I drop it and that's missing.

We know why right, i think i got it. Yeah we're gon na go call that for the win, we're gon na be gentle on it. So my guess is probably look at how much came out of it. Maybe a tube and a quarter.

I don't know nothing saying it was full right. I'm gon na go cut that little tip off and hopefully get enough feed that up room there. I'm gon na keep going until it comes out that top hole. Here's what's gon na be tricky.

I think you're supposed to be able to put your finger over that top one and kind of help hold it, and oh just do that. Let me talk a little bit of waste up the waist. It's right good thing. I brought all three of them with me.

She's thirsty. I definitely think i'm putting in more than came out hoping to get known god can't man, it's not coming up the top. Let me have to try filling these tubes up with, what's left in each one of them and get a little bit more, because that wasn't enough, i'm gon na try putting the top one on again, it's like holding your finger over the straw, there's a little screwdriver Down here somewhere, i take a file to the screws kind of clean up the edges. All right, let me throw the final one in i got ta come up with some more stuff and the reason why you do it from you fill it from the bottom.

Is it gets around all the little crevices and gears and everything and you're you're filling it up as you're going along and it allows it so that any air pockets don't get stuck? If you try to fill it through here, the whole bottom, it can just coat over with oil. It could be a just big air bubble that sits down inside there and you never got that filled. I'm gon na go, try and take what's left of each one of those and put it in one and continue on take an idea where we are see. If we can, let's put a bend on it, put a bend on it, see if it's almost there all right, dipstick would be so much easier.

Watch me get stuck in there. I think i'm right about there. I might do it so then i look on the ground. I see that sitting there and like, where did that fall out of i'm having a feeling, possibly where the water pickup goes? I didn't see it when i fell out when i took it apart.

Well, that sucks, let's take it back apart again i'll just take the gear oil out, but i got ta fix that i got ta go uh find out where that goes, that and that look very similar. We do it right because we do it twice. I'm gon na say either. Actually it should be a witness mark on there.

Shouldn't have done that. Huh kind of looks like something like that. Maybe but the other tube goes inside it. So that's really not gon na.

What's that gon na see also the either went there or there, let's see how that fits over the lose it oh kind of looks like a stain. That was something was there right, but nothing really there's nothing pushing back on this and on this one the tube goes on the inside. So how is that really a seal unless it sits right there? I could do this. All i want to see if we can figure it out, so this is the water pickup tube.

I don't really do anything. I wonder if it wedges itself right against that when it's on that drive shafts, and what would that purpose be just to try to help stop water coming from coming back down on on this now, it looks like it would be in there, though right. I think it'd be a little bit more of a shoulder to stop it, but hmm i'm guessing there. I don't see that doing anything.

Let's go grab that plastic piece. It's kind of sloppy all right that one got beat up too. That was already beat up before, though a little damn it, but then again somebody else would probably replace this pump, someplace and sometimes past life and fought with it too. So i watched a video of me taking it apart and it fell out just as it was starting to pull the unit down apart, and it does appear that it came off here.

It was probably already split and that's why the polish mark is probably up so far. It was probably broken and racked going across it and polished paused it shaft - or this is the original piece of plastic. There's no markings on that, so could have lived without it. Probably, but i think i said we do it right, because we do it twice yeah it fell out right when i was about up there.

I don't think how about the chip in there? It's not like it's gon na, do anything yeah. Well now they know how to do it. What needs to be aware i'll, try that again, water tubes on get the shifter in the right place, um! Oh there. We go definitely much easier, the second time, because all the splines are already lined up.

I need to move anything, you know fail. Yes, i think we got pretty much everything taken care of that we can. We need a relay which is no big deal changes couple of wires when we're there and then the sac official lamb on the bottom, and we can change that while we're there too, while the boat's in the water once this goes to the lake. It's pretty much.

Just going to stay there because it's kind of a bit of an issue to get there so we're just trying to get whatever we can taken care of. But that's you know one bolt and this motor tilts up out of the water, nice and easy so uh. What else do we have to go and do i want to look at the trailer a little bit? I know all the lights work already. We should probably check the wheel.

Bearings tires. I'm not that concerned about again. It doesn't have that far to go and then once it's there, this trailer is going to get used 30 feet in and out of the water for the rest of its duration that i own it anyway. Uh, yes, go check out the wheel, bearings we'll spin them up, throw some grease in those and just give a quick overlook of anything else that possibly we forgot to pop those engine covers on, along with the compressor kicking on that probably held some paperwork for you.

For the motor, but the foam is flapping away. Let's give her a little that, let's have them sit up for about a minute before we stick them anymore and together one probably use a little. That's pretty good about a minute later. That should do.

We won't worry about the missing chomp marks just be a little bit noisier a lot of times, contacts in a relay they're, what's called self-cleaning as they arc against each other. They clean the material away. If you use them a little bit, sometimes it will cure them, especially if they sit for a while. I may not worry about ordering that relay making a motion sick.

Oh there, it goes. I spoke too soon. I'm gon na leave that in the up position, thanks give her spanish howland yeah, it's pretty quiet what this has on it. It's called bearing buddies.

Normally, what you have is a spindle, a bearing on the other side of bearing on the outer side, you pack them by hand and that's it bearing buddies what they are uh. Let me back up a little bit, especially on boat trailers. The wheel gets hot. You get to the boat ramp and you back the boat trailer into the water and instantly in the cold water.

These bearings go under and what happens is in the air space. That's in there the air goes from hot to cool and it can it can contracts. Yeah, so it sucks in any water. That's around it, and eventually you know, kills the bearings because of that, even though you had them well packed, you didn't, have the volume 100 complete and having that issue where it sucks the the water regular water in kiln.

The bearings on a bearing buddy, it has a grease fitting on the outside of it and it's spring-loaded, so you fill it full of grease and there's like a diaphragm that works a diaphragm that works its way back under spring loaded pressure. Just springs on this side and the diaphragm is on this side full of grease and over time it just keeps light pressure pushing on a positive pressure. So, even if you go to put it into the water - and it goes to cool off - that spring is already there to kind of take the space up and use that volume up. That's how they roll this is good guys keep greasing them.

I don't hear anything there we go. I guess we're going to go. Call that full i'll just see him on the other side, make sure there's no noise. On that one check out the raised white letter on this one yeah, it's nice and quiet too little lump in the tire, though you can set one place for a while all right, stop the camera from moving.

That's a bit of a flat spot, the jack handle's. Looking a little on dry side, let me get some of that yeah. She moves smooth, throw a bunch of that around there and let it draw up. Trees, probably would have been better huh yeah, i'm gon na go get some of that uh marine lube wipe that off get a little heavier stuff on it.

So, okay, i say we hook some power to the trolling motor and we'll see what that does. It's tied down there. All the controls are over here. Let's go back to a jumper pack or something on see what it does.

So there was wires over here somewhere there we go and it looks like we have a hot in the ground, two hots and two grains, that's another ground, another hot. I say we try to figure out, let's just put 12 volts to something see what it does. I don't know if we should tie the two hots together into two grounds. Together would be my guess, and maybe if you switch it over to 24 volts it's for the other setup um, it's a hook.

One up see what it gets. What do you think we just pick one arbitrarily see what we get, that one all right, clamp that one on see what she does out front, so we need to be on 12.. We got nothing actually. Is that an any kind of cure come on? I don't know what speed is what, but it should be spinning, no matter what well that doesn't work.

It has to do anything. I think that does charge 212 volts run it's in run. Let's go right in the middle there see if it does anything we'll just try all the positions it may not even work who knows plug seems like it's in, let's go swap it around in the back, see if anything happens, yeah it's good. Just to tie the hots together in the ground together see what we get back up front.

Nothing. Maybe it does not work on 12., i see it's a roman numeral itself. That's off that's top speed. Do i have to push the pedal now? Is it just clicking that pushing the pedal down should rotate it nicely around? Nothing, let's go.

Try i don't know, maybe hooking 24 volts up to it, see if that works. For us, i have a feeling that it's probably gon na have to be posing negative, then to the other, the negative one barrier, the positive of the other one open them up in series. Two jumper packs. Let's see if it does anything on 24 flip volts down dead, make sure we get nothing funky happening up here.

It's only three wires, not much to it all right we're going to try tying them together, but making it like 24 volts. So we want okay, both negatives together. This is where it's going to screw people up a little bit, i'm going to take the hot out of the first jumper pack tie it to the ground that wasn't cheeky at all. That was it all right to the ground to there to the hot of that one flip them around, so the jaw to jaw all right and then the output of this one we're gon na go so that is going to put 24 volts down them paired up.

Let's see if that does anything and see what we get 124, it's the only on-off switch. I see i am going to go screw with it for a while and see if i can figure out what makes it tick i'll bring you back when i figure it out. Some of you probably already figured it out and yelling at me. Aren't you oh well all right, so didn't change anything.

I flipped it up to 12 volt charge. Apparently you pump some wind too, so why it works in charge 12 volt on 24 volt tied together. You got me, but at least i found a combination where it'll work got to get a set of good uh d-cycle 12-volt battery. I don't know if you're supposed to take this, if you unplug this and it's a solar panel, you can kind of put in or maybe a charger.

I don't know. I would think when you fire the boat up as well would charge it. But i wonder if it had some kind of trickle charger for that setup. So all right, i should be able to take one red wire and one black wire off and it should still work.

I got two of those disconnected to see we get now. It's still got 24 volts, but just going to two wires: oh yeah yeah, it's any slower! Neither nothing on 12. go to the speeds. That's it.

You're gon na have to jump the two of them together, in other words, 12 volt battery 12 volt battery positive, negative, positive negative. So i'm gon na have the two positives on one post, the two negatives on the other post and then the jumper from the positive on this battery to the negative on this battery, we'll make it a 24 volt battery. That seems how it works. It's not working on any kind of combination for 12 volt, but that's okay, it'll, probably last that much longer i have that much more slots.

I got to get two of those batteries again. We don't have to have that ready to go get in the water, but i'd like to let's see what's available or you just drive around with those two connected, probably easier to move the boat. I'm sure that's good for it. Well, hopefully, fire's right up and after a couple of seconds we get water peeing out of there.

Oh you're, missing people pushing there, that's good. It's got ta fill up, give her a couple of revs. That's already up there we go good. Our water pump is working, kill that before it kills us and a few days later we got our bits and pieces.

So i was able to get a what's called a group 27 battery box, which is the larger battery box and was the only one they had in stock in the local wally world. I was not able to get any for the group 24, but i did order some on ebay when they come here. I'll worry about that. Probably the boat will be in the water at that point.

So, let's get this stuff knocked out, got a jumper cable between two of them and yes, we are running 24 volts on the trolling motor a little concerned about how much room it would be for 27's over here. So i went with the 24s. My guess is, one was set up like that and made one sitting this way. I guess you probably could have got both of them in there, but that should work for us uh.

I may just kind of again we got to kind of temporarily put these in here, because when the battery boxes come i'll, probably mount them to the floor, maybe just drill right through them with some washers, and you know silicone around them so that they are leak-proof And they need to pull the batteries right out of those black battery boxes, so we're gon na make one 24-volt battery out of it. So we have a negative and a positive that we're going to tie together and then this is going to be the negative and that's going to be the positive, with 24 volts difference between the two of them. What i'll do is i'll take some tie wraps and maybe i'll just tie wrap the two batteries together. Again, it's a boat.

It's not like it's a car where they're bouncing around that much it does bounce around. You start getting jumping some waves, but you probably mostly bouncing around just trying to get in the boat to the to the pond. You think you should probably flip that one over get rid of the little goofy bend in it. There you go.

I think i could have went with about 10 inches shorter spun. The battery around went from like here to here, hot hot and hot, and let's see for our 24 volts movie, setting that's two there you go go crank her all the way up makes a good fan for sure nice. That should do it all right. So we goop those up a little bit review you it's in the hole, it's all hooked up.

It's got a little divider for the size of the battery, just keep it from slopping around it. Just kind of goes across and takes up that excess play in the battery box and the lid itself has little cutouts in it that allow the cables to exit around yeah small ones are no problem, the larger ones you got ta kind of give them a little Bit of a mold see how this does for us, then there's a strap that goes over the whole thing so that because the battery's kicked over to one side, i need to take all this stuff and kind of steer it over this way, a little bit more And tighten it up back down. One thing it does have is a strap that you would screw the outside around the box and tie it down with them where they go two of those one on each side and screw it down, but the access to the back of it there. It's just not enough room to go get in there.

So, that's why i did it the way i did possibly on the other one when we do the the two that are when we do those two over there. We can separate them and be able to get them in like they should, but if not, it's getting the same treatment. That's the case. People keep writing in the questions later on.

The fact that i did not put anything on the terminals, i'm gon na take the batteries out every end of season and bring them back to the garage where it's warm, so they don't get killed over the course of the winter time. So i just don't want to goofing them all up and i think any kind of concrete any kind of corrosion i'll clean it off then. But for the six months that they're going to be in here, it's going to be more of a nuisance with all the crap on them than it is just to leave them alone, and you know possibly address them if they start seeing any corrosion. But generally, if you're taking them apart and clean them every time you put them on that short period of time, it's really not an issue all right with that close off that department and let's go get the last item on the list all rise and to keep The corrosion down brandy new, get in there yeah, let's start zinc a little bugs in the water you're gon na call it that go and attack that and leave the other parts of the metal alone.

The prop and the outdrive, hopefully crack that one tightening her down. I see an issue. Take the bolt out, see if i got enough room on it. I wonder if that's what broke the old one too, because that is the bolt that was in there make sure there's a tab too long.

You see that pushing apart, but definitely if it ran all the way in and bottomed out, so i'm gon na do i'm just gon na nip off about 3 8 of an inch clean up the end and put it back in. So that's more like it. Sometimes it's better when you're grinding the end of the bolt off like that and you're cutting it shorter to if you had a nut, put it on the bolt. First, on the threads cut the bolt off and run the nut off.

It'll clean the threads off too. But i didn't have one handy: you know what this means, don't you, i'm gon na go, get it wet drink up. My little friend needless to say, right in is a little rough, and this is the good part. Wait till we get to the rough part.

Hmm, but we did get an eight foot wide by 20 foot long, pontoon boat, that sits about 10 inches up off the ground, whoops down this trail, so that made it through. Here we did bring a chainsaw with us, the worst case we're gon na make it fit. I must say the pond's a little smaller than i remember it. So just a gas tank, it's fine! You guys hear the music from deliverance.

I suggest you don't stick around off in the distance. Is our goal, oh, that one's not going to make it alright, let's go see what we can do no break up against the tree work on this one, just not paying attention. I think it was up against the spare tire i got ta go back her up and see if we can get her wiggled way over to that side swing this as wide as we can um home sweet home. Now we just got ta back her down into that.

Didn't even need the chainsaw, the weather's gon na hold out for us pretty good water's low. So we have to get down pretty low, get the truck fairly decent into the water yeah. It stays shallow for a while, so it might be a little fun all right get the boat, prepped and you're gon na go in the water. If i say first thing on the list, that might be a good idea and some of those just in case.

Let me take a second to untie that knot. It's not my fault. It's the way it came from the yard sale. I promise this might take a second just saying that masked man was nice to launch find along the trail.

It's a linda helping hand getting warm we're, bothering the pond's only 12 feet deep 100 feet of rope, so hmm so hope i tied it to the truck find out if these are any good extreme. All right, let's see, look like a duck. Let's go check for leaks. Here's the fun part we're on.

Let's go get that motor down a little bit open that hatch up we'll take a quick peek. What do we need? It's probably gon na hit the ground right there. Let's look for leaks, real, quick. That's the most important thing.

I guess it looks dry. That's a good sign! There's a bunch of water rain that prop is out. It looks like we're making it. I think we can fire it up right where it is good.

Let's go see what we get. I don't hear the clicking there. It goes. Oh you know what i had the engine up.

I wonder if we lost all the fuel in the bowls, let's go give her a couple of primer yeah, that's what it is, because the engine was in the up position. The carbs probably drained out see if that does anything for us there you go. Let it run a little bit turn the steering wheel straight see if we start peeing, where the back of the boat doesn't clear: the water very much huh, yeah she's, spitting out some water good out of the exhaust. I say we cast the line, see how she does cast away.

Fine, sir, if you don't see me in 20 minutes, it might have been an issue. Let's go bumper in reverse, get her facing the way we want her to go. We do have a trolling motor, which is who does good low. I guess that's the nature of it.

Plus it's got a full tank on it too. He's peeing pretty good. Now put him forward get herself a sheet. You guys ready we'll start out easy at first and then we'll get into her.

Just give her a little okay, i got ta work with the trim too. Just give her a rip not taking throttle dying. Well, that was impressive. If she fires up never got to put a load on it yet so feel like it's got no advanced here we go we'll give her more.

I'm gon na work with two hands so so got enough room to get her up to full speed on the pond. We got touch 50.. I was playing with the trim time trying to dial it in hope that trim gauge works or not. Let's try it i'm looking at that, one all the way down yeah.

I think it's doing much bring it up. I'm gon na learn to the dock real easy tire up kind of check out things make sure everything's doing. Okay, fuel tank gauge looks like it's kind of working. That's about how much gas it put in put another uh, 15 gallons in so it's got 20 gallons.

In it right now probably takes 30.. That's my guess. Charging system's questionable, i'm not sure about that. We're gon na go bumper up to the dock.

There and i said, give her a once-over. I think we're gon na trim some lily pads on the way in too. This is normally where i keep the pontoon boat. This is where she's gon na stay, probably forward.

I got ta get rid of some brush. That's in the way, all right, let's see what we got pump, looks like it's working good. Let's see how we're doing for any intrusions moisture, and that is looking good too. I say it's time that we uh take my 85 year old father out for a little joy ride.

Is your pacemaker recommended for this kind of travel yep? Can you swim? Are you you're, gon na find out right, hopefully not so you're welcome to go hop on there. Let's go for a ride. Let's go for a ride. Okay, you can step up there.

If you want okay, all of us should hold you. No problem. Yeah see ya. Take it out yourself yeah.

So from your perspective, how did that? Look? I don't know what luck the ride. While i was riding around out there. I think you're rolling the speed limit going here. It looked good, i mean now i get to witness it for myself.

All right, let's shove off, do the lily pads without sucking them up. Hopefully, if you reverse the cut the prop kind of grabs them in reverse, because the way the blade is hooked, then you go forward and come off. The blade makes a little path once you go through it. A couple of times give us a little road all right, i'll start us out slow as fast as you want.

That's i want warning. There's a two-stroke warning make sure the two-stroke oil goes into it and it's peeping away, and hopefully you can see stroke is doing what it's supposed to be doing. Let's go give her. I don't think that's what it was, though.

I think that was an alarm for sucking air now so much crap i got around the prop. You would see oil on top. I would think no it's uh, possibly of uh, taking out a sheer pin and the prop spins. I don't see that being an issue.

Possibly it is oil not going to the oiler, oh coolant's doing we should be doing. I just need to be able to go grab that problem pop it in gear and give it a spin make sure she's doing what she's supposed to be doing. I said: take a quick look at the oiler. The tank has an oil tank in the boat.

That goes and feeds an oil tank on top of the motor and the top of the motor one feeds injection oil into the motor as you're using it beeping's going off. I believe his alarm for saying it's not getting any oil. I believe that is what it is for, like i'm going to look out for a couple other things that may be for other things also, so i'm not going to run it anymore. On that we know.

It'll run full throttle and do what it's supposed it will do, what it is supposed to do, but worst case we disconnect that, and we just add pre-mix to it. So for that part of it we're gon na be well enough alone. We have mother nature coming in fairly quickly on us, so i think maybe one last thing we can do dad is uh, we'll throw that little electric trolling motor in the front down and we'll putt around on that we'll see how that does for us and we'll Go from there all right see how this puppy works for us. Here's that yeah, i think we just pop up and in i should probably push off out of the weeds just a hair, though that can be all right.

I want to shove this off a little bit, get us out of the total weeds i'll get it. Oh that would be thunder. Yes, it would be yeah, it makes for adventure yeah. I had a quick test.

We got ta, try it and supposed to walk in there. It goes and let's just see what it does, let's go get her that way backwards. I want that dot piecing us yeah. I could take out some lily pads, though just stuck in the down position.

I'm gon na get all those lily pads off of it. You got that rope brakes. I'm screwed right, hmm just needed two hands a little bit of lube on those points. Probably wouldn't hurt things, though, all right that dot rookie mistakes.

This is where you need a paddle to get out of there right. Let's get us, do you ever get the feeling? Some of your ideas are not the best. What i won't do for videos, that's yeah all go fix that again. That's not good! I'm getting down here, we got the power on lower, let's see how that does for us kind of ease our way out of here.

If he's going full throttle, that's better, let's go get that dot facing forward, which is that way, and now let's go give her there, you go whoop, there's a banger coming yeah. What, if there's anybody else on the lake thinking? This is a bad idea waiting for the bank see how far away it is fireworks. That's what it is. That's pretty good moves.

This along troll motor moves pretty good again! That's all! It's idea is just to go punch you around right, get you in all the fishing spots. I think we make a quick little lap around and we call this one due to uh the feeling of self-preservation, probably the best way. To put it. I get some solar panels, while it's here and i'll keep the batteries charged for the trolling motor part of it yeah it does decent.

I need some bumper set up on the dock, for it pontoon boat, to stay connected to the pontoon boat. I have some ones. I can nail to the side of the dock for using them on the dock. It might be for another day, though so you can come in and well guys.

This may conclude our adventure for today of our first outing of the cheap bass boat. That's been sitting for 10 years. I think it wasn't a bad deal. I think we're fairly squared away.

I think the only thing we have to go deal with is the oil pump situation. Looking at. What's going on with that again the worst case scenario: we just get rid of the oil automatic feed and we'll just pre-mix it and shut that alarm off. I might have a little block off plate or something we need to go put it i'm not sure yet.

Well guys, i think that's going to be about it. Mother nature is telling us to kind of wrap it up. So i think we're going to do just that at least we're able to get in the water get a little bit of a shakedown run. It does not look like it's taking any water on.

That's a good sign, bilge pump's, all hooked up. It's got all new fresh batteries in it. Trolling motor seems to do what it's supposed to be doing again. The lily pads around the boat are not helping.

Things been a little bit of an issue and the oil, i believe the oil alarm is what's beeping going off on, i got ta, go, look it up, but i'm pretty sure that is the case with it. So we need to go address that and fix the oil part of it and or just disconnect it all together and premix the oil gas so that we don't cook the motor. So i don't want to try running it anymore today until i do a little bit more homework, but it seems like it goes. Fine, it does 50 miles an hour, probably a little bit more than that in it too.

I didn't get into the fish finder. I didn't get into the water tanks any of that stuff, yet that'll be for another day, but i think for this video we're gon na go, call it and just be glad that everything was able to come back and do what it's supposed to do for now And hopefully, when i come back in a day or two she's still floating, if not the water's, not very deep here, it's only about uh three feet deeper, so so we'll fish her out if we have to - and that would make for a good video too. But for this one i think we're gon na sign her off, there's any more to this one uh after this series i'll add on to it, but for right now i think we're gon na go shut her down right here and this boat's just going to stay Here for the season until uh the fall and then we'll take it back out, bring her back home and put her away for the winter. All right guys with that.

I want to thank you all for hanging out with me having a little bit of fun. Hopefully get a little bit of fishing in the summer and i could strike by lightning that'd, be a good thing too. All right guys with that. Thanks i'll see you soon later, you.