Anyway glad it's fixed. And another goid example of why just swapping parts without running tests complicates things. Not bagging on you. Just writing it so it gets seen. I'm always telling people don't just start swapping parts because you might create a second problem making the whole process harder to diagnose. I've written it before on here. I've changed ABCDE and F and it still doesn't run. What do you think is wrong? Well it could be ABCDE or F or something else entirely but now we have 6 more things to verify are the right part and work correctly. I don't count on a new part being good right out of the box anymore,too many poor quality parts and too many incorrect parts.
It’s sometimes hard to explain to people that a question needs to be supported by as much info as possible. It’s hard enough to play internet diagnostics. Even harder when you’re spoon fed info or “I forgot I….” or the odd person who knows they f ed something up so they don’t tell the whole story, trying to get the fix without admitting a mistake.
Classic one recently on a boat forum. Guy has a (LS inboard closed loop cooling) that ran 2 weeks ago and now won’t crank, but by crank he means won’t fire, and has 3 batteries but can’t provide state of charge or how they’re linked together. After going through a bunch of back n forth, with him just not answering follow in questions completely or at all, a mobile “mechanic” tells him it’s a bad starter and a second “mechanic” says bad battery (has 3 batteries and not able to check/swap/combine them?)
Then after a couple of us go down that rabbit hole with the same spotty input from the guy with the issue, another mechanic (that’s 3 now in person and us internet mechanics) suggests he has water in the cylinders and hydro locked it since he apparently admitted to leaving the garden hose on for a “while” when it started and died a few times and wouldn’t start again.
At the end of it, the solution was he was out of gas and forgot the previous owner told him the gas gauge sticks sometimes. And he changes the subject to how hard it is to load in the wind and how he bolted bunk boards to the side of his wakeboat trailer (that has guide poles already like all comp boat trailers)
And when we suggest those will likely rip the very expensive raised letters decals off the side of his boat and to just start with the trailer shallower he says already installed will see how it goes…..
This boat is 12 years old but worth probably $60-70k if it’s in great shape and that’s what transpired online.
It’s like half the world is Facebook retarded….
