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  1. Ben Okopnik

    someone had a bad day today

    As if I wasn't jealous enough already. :) You've got a point. I once spent three days on the hard, balanced on my keel (Dutch steel ketch with in-hull cooling; the keel was a good 2' wide, and I laid anchors out abeam and winched them in, hard) when a strong southern wind blew all the water to...
  2. Ben Okopnik

    someone had a bad day today

    Holy moly. It hasn't been sucked down yet? I wouldn't make too many bets on it being anything but cut up and junked, this far down the road. Would love to be wrong, though. (I'm sitting at home, all sad and blue 'cause I blew out my shift cable. The new one isn't going to get here till the...
  3. Ben Okopnik

    Help me ID those broken plastic parts

    Try getting Yamaha support on the line, or show the pieces to a service tech. Especially for the last one, it seems like a solid bet that one of those folks would get curious and get other people involved if he didn't know the answer himself...
  4. Ben Okopnik

    Siphon break on 175xr2 SportJet

    Thanks, @Bilmon! That's what I was going to do originally, but decided that I liked Jeff's idea better - specifically because I realized that a tiny drilled hole would be impossible to see. In fact, I combined it with another project: there was a 4" round hole above the stern, which must have...
  5. Ben Okopnik

    Siphon break on 175xr2 SportJet

    Yeah. I've pretty much lost count of boats that I've seen sunk by siphoning (including plugged vacuum breaks) and single (or cheap) hose clamps on thru-hulls. A lot less chance of it happening on this one, simply because I'm always on board and on watch whenever she's in the water, but the fact...
  6. Ben Okopnik

    Siphon break on 175xr2 SportJet

    Heh, yeah - I caught that while thinking about your last response. "Hey, why am I bringing it out, anyway?" Under the deck in the engine compartment is where it'll be.
  7. Ben Okopnik

    Siphon break on 175xr2 SportJet

    Right, the manual mentioned an .020" diameter hole, so - tiny hose, or maybe a slightly larger one with a plug in the end and a hole drilled to size. Heck, I think I'll just go with that: I should be able to get a small enough thread-to-barb fitting to just screw it into the hose from the side...
  8. Ben Okopnik

    Siphon break on 175xr2 SportJet

    Yep; that part is in place - it's just a tube tapped into the jet body with a hose running forward from it. Took that off and blew through it; it's clear, at least, so the suction part should be working. That's the exact gadget I'm talking about - it's missing! The PO just brought the tube...
  9. Ben Okopnik

    Siphon break on 175xr2 SportJet

    Hey, all - According to the manual, the SJ has a "bilge siphon" feature in which the big pump is also used to evacuate the water out of the bilge at speed. This sounds pretty cool, but there are all sorts of warnings about keeping the siphon break open and locating it above the waterline -...
  10. Ben Okopnik

    Sport Jet leaking exhaust manifold, The saga continues...

    Hm, yeah - I forgot it was only DC. :\ Oh, well. MIG would be cheaper, but making it work for this job... yeah, you've got a bit of a tough row to hoe. Well, cross your fingers for the solution you've got!
  11. Ben Okopnik

    Sport Jet leaking exhaust manifold, The saga continues...

    You're going to laugh, but... Harbor Freight has a TIG welder for ~$200. And it's - well, it's not the piece of crap you'd expect; for a job like this, it should work just fine. When I was in welding school, one of our guys bought one and brought it in just so we could all laugh at it - and I've...
  12. Ben Okopnik

    Sport Jet leaking exhaust manifold, The saga continues...

    I'd recommend not bothering with JB Weld. Much as I like the stuff, tapping it for load-bearing applications - like bolts that have to be torqued - is a waste of time. If you're already thinking about welding, then I'd recommend that. TIG does a beautiful job of filling holes, especially if you...
  13. Ben Okopnik

    someone had a bad day today

    I'm a bit surprised he doesn't at least have anchors laid out to seaward. I don't know... if it was me, I'd be taking advantage of every passive angle I could: getting the bow pivoted toward deep water, anchors dug in and lines drum-taught, clearing rocks from the path if any - and trying to...
  14. Ben Okopnik

    stern anchor

    Just for perspective: I'm really conservative about sizing ground tackle - you would be too, after living aboard through 17 hurricanes in the Caribbean, with a number of them having passed directly overhead - and I could see using a 16-pounder as the main anchor for my 15' Rocket. Any weather...
  15. Ben Okopnik

    Sport Jet leaking exhaust manifold, The saga continues...

    There's also supposed to be a water pressure relief valve near the lower end of the cylinder block, starboard side. If I was scratching my head about this kind of thing, I'd peek at it just to see if there were any weird surprises there.
  16. Ben Okopnik

    Sport Jet leaking exhaust manifold, The saga continues...

    By the way - and I'm just spitballin' here, because some of the surface patterns I see on your exhaust head remind me of an "invisible" crack I had on an aluminum oil pan on a bike that caused me no end of problems until I figured it out - a trick I learned from a welding engineer buddy of mine...
  17. Ben Okopnik

    Sport Jet leaking exhaust manifold, The saga continues...

    Ditto here! I've done some machining, etc. in the past, but it's very cool to see this diagnostic/solution process step by step. (Sorry, @RedBarron55 - I know it's a problem for you, and I wish you weren't having it. But as long as you are, I'm grateful that you're writing it up - and that...
  18. Ben Okopnik

    Cable repair gets me out of trouble!

    Once you get off the US mainland, the ratio of replace-vs-repair shifts radically. I had an outboard driveshaft quit on me in Boqueron, Puerto Rico - the corners wore off the square-cut end, and it also chewed up the fitting it went into. Johnson wanted some insane amount of money and 6-8 weeks...
  19. Ben Okopnik

    I know we all have to learn to use the trailer but wow this may take the cake.

    [grin] That's pretty close to what I'd be saying if I saw that happening. Russian and Polish might have different pronunciations and spellings, but the ideas are apt to be pretty much the same!
  20. Ben Okopnik

    someone had a bad day today

    Yeah, I saw that guy the day I ran out to Egmont. I'm surprised he managed to get in there, much less that far onto the bar - I was running parallel to the shore a good quarter mile off, and started seeing 3-4' under me and nothing but breakers to shoreward. Got out of there in a hurry (and made...
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