When you are out and lose a shear pin you may be out of luck if you have none or lose something like the cotter pin, nut or whatever. Don't ask how I know this! :^) Some motors have a place to stick an extra shear pin or two, and maybe an extra cotter pin. As to the nut, you're out of luck. Try this. Get some extras. As many as you think you may need, plus a few. Take the cover off, find a place that has some extra space between the cover and motor and lay out your extra parts. Take your caulking gun, load it with some silicone, and just glue them all in there. Smear it heavy so they won't come loose over time. One of these days you'll shear a pin and use the spare. You probably won't replace it. Next time, you'd be out of luck - except you can take off the cover and find a big stock. This is especially important if you are leaving the country. YOu will have a difficult time finding shear pins or the nuts anywhere out of the country. Another thing you should do is put an inline filter in your gas line. Find the gas line as it snakes inside the cover. Locat a place that there is room. Put in a standard auto inline filter. Keep in mind, you can get a lot longer piec3e of gas line to relocate it most anywhere under the cover it will fit. This could keep you from getting stranded in the middle of nowhere. Again, don't ask! Gene Gruender Rainbow Chaser
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Great ideas, but one always has something to make up a shear pin in the boat. Also , a way to retain it. We don't need it to last forever. Be creative. Go for some adventure, even if it's only a tiny adventure. Good God, used to be whenever I bought a used motorcycle I'd take it out in a snot rockin' storm to shake out the electrics. Don't want to do that with the boat(?), but do you want every day to be snoozy normal? Anyway, thanks. Good advice.
Great ideas, but one always has something to make up a shear pin in the boat. Also , a way to retain it. We don't need it to last forever. Be creative. Go for some adventure, even if it's only a tiny adventure. Good God, used to be whenever I bought a used motorcycle I'd take it out in a snot rockin' storm to shake out the electrics. Don't want to do that with the boat(?), but do you want every day to be snoozy normal? Anyway, thanks. Good advice.
Yes, there are other solutions.
In Jamaica they used nails, sawed off screwdrivers, whatever they could find. They had no source of the real thing. Of course, when you knock off a blade of the prop because the pin you cludged up was too hard, you'll have to be REAL creative to solve that one!
In Jamaica they used nails, sawed off screwdrivers, whatever they could find. They had no source of the real thing. Of course, when you knock off a blade of the prop because the pin you cludged up was too hard, you'll have to be REAL creative to solve that one!
but - the real problem is....
I thought about it a bit more, and you are correct, you can probably find something on your boat to solve most of these things. The real problem is that you won't be on your boat when you need to solve it. Last time I had a problem like that, I was 10 miles from any help. I ended up using my last cotter pin as a shear pin, with no prop nut. I can assure you, I was VERY gentle on the throttle!
I thought about it a bit more, and you are correct, you can probably find something on your boat to solve most of these things. The real problem is that you won't be on your boat when you need to solve it. Last time I had a problem like that, I was 10 miles from any help. I ended up using my last cotter pin as a shear pin, with no prop nut. I can assure you, I was VERY gentle on the throttle!
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